Locker
['lɒkə] or ['lɑkɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, locks.
(n.) A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock.
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Examples
- I have a small locker trunk in my room, I said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She sat, at this time, and all the evening, on the old locker in her old little corner by the fire--Ham beside her, where I used to sit. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The fire was bright, the ashes were thrown up, the locker was ready for little Emily in her old place. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Little Em'ly came and sat beside me on the locker for the only time in all that visit; and it was altogether a wonderful close to a wonderful day. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There were lockers all round, and Wilson, the sham chaplain, knocked one of them in, and pulled out a dozen of brown sherry. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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