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To lock in, or inclose.

, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.

See Charlock.

A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together. [Written also killick.]

See Ladyrird.

To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.

or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after spawning; as, the landlocked salmon.

A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Burton. A long lovelock and long hair he wore. Sir W. Scott.

An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match.

Rubbish; refuse; dirt. [Obs.] All this mullok [was] in a sieve ythrowe. Chaucer.

fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing. See Rowlock.

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.

An instrument for picking locks. Shak.

See under Pillow.

A pillow block.

A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc.

A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale a…

A sort of shackle. [Obs.]

The pollock, or coalfish.

To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake. [Obs. or Scot.]