noun: a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
noun: a strand or cluster of hair
noun: a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
noun: 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
noun: a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
noun: any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
verb: fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence"
verb: keep engaged; "engaged the gears"
verb: become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"
verb: hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her neck"
verb: become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were locked in embrace"
verb: hold fast (in a certain state); "He was locked in a laughing fit"
verb: place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe"
verb: pass by means through a lock in a waterway
verb: build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
Length: 4 letters
Scrabble value: 10
Words with Friends value: 12
Literati value: 6
TWL (USA): Found
SOWPODS (UK): Found
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