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ing or linking together; to secure in place by mutual fastening. My lady with her fingers interlocked. Tennyson.

One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.

ke a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one. Dovetail molding (Arch.), a molding of any convex section arranged in a sort of zigzag, like a series of dovetails. -- Dovetail saw…

Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.

hoops. -- Hoop lock, the fastening for uniting the ends of wooden hoops by notching and interlocking them. -- Hoop skirt, a framework of hoops for expanding the skirts of a woman's dress; -- called also hoop petticoat. -- Hoop snake (Zoöl.), a harmless snake of the Southern United States (Abaster erythrogrammus); -…

ing and manage hose in the extinguishing of fires. [U.S.] -- Hose coupling, coupling with interlocking parts for uniting hose, end to end. -- Hose wrench, a spanner for turning hose couplings, to unite or disconnect them.

To interlock, as the fingers of two hands that are joined; to be interwoven; to commingle. Owen.

Intertwined; interlocked; clasped together. Longfellow.

of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions.

To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock. "The pleached bower." Shak.

belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the south (C. adamanteus), are the b…

lit pulley, a parting pulley. See under Pulley. -- Split ring, a ring with overlapped or interlocked ends which may be sprung apart so that objects, as keys, may be strung upon the ring or removed from it. -- Split ticket, a ballot containing the names of only a portion of the candidates regularly nominated by one pa…

To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.