Padlock
['pædlɒk] or ['pæd'lɑk]
Definition
(noun.) a detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut.
(verb.) fasten with a padlock.
Inputed by Cornelia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.
(n.) Fig.: A curb; a restraint.
(v. t.) To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a padlock.
Typist: Loretta
Definition
n. a movable lock with a link turning on a hinge or pivot at one end to enable it to pass through a staple or other opening and to be pressed down to catch the bolt at the other end.—v.t. to fasten with a padlock.
Typed by Lloyd
Examples
- Where could a key be a safeguard, or a padlock a barrier? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The barman put the boat in a little slip in the stone wall and locked it with a chain and padlock. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Something resembling a bar of iron, and a padlock painted blue on the black shield. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I had rented a small shop in Newark, on the top floor of a padlock factory, by the month. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Closing the door and fastening it with a padlock, Venn set off towards Blooms-End. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- If I had not been here, they would have treated your portfolio as they have done your desk; but I told them it was padlocked. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But it is padlocked; he has the key. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Inputed by Evelyn