Definition of lock
Scrabble & Words with friends points
- lock is a valid US Scrabble word with a point value of 10
- lock is a valid UK Scrabble word with a point value of 10
- lock is a valid Words With Friends word with a point value of 12
Meanings
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- a strand or cluster of hair
- a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
Noun
- fasten with a lock
- keep engaged
- become rigid or immoveable
- hold in a locking position
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another
- hold fast (in a certain state)
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
Verb
- shut_up
- operate
- interlace
- engage
- lock_in
- lock_away
- put_away
- lock_chamber
- shut_away
- lock_up
- lock
- curl
- whorl
- ignition_lock
- mesh
- interlock
- ringlet
Synonyms
- unlock
- disengage