pa. pple. and ppl. a. [See LOCK v.] Shut in or enclosed by land; almost entirely surrounded by land, as a harbor, etc. Also transf. of fish: Living in land-locked waters so as to be shut off from the sea.
1622. R. Hawkins, Voy. S. Sea (1847), 92. In the lesser of these ilands, is a cave for a small ship to ryde in, land-lockt.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., Ded. (1721), I. 194. A good Conscience is a Port which is Land-lock’d on every side.
1740. Woodroofe, in Hanway’s Trav. (1672), I. IV. lix. 275. Twelve or fifteen sail of ships might lie land-locked, with the utmost security.
1779. Forrest, Voy. N. Guinea, 253. Went farther round into a land-locked bay, and moored the vessel.
1840. R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xiv. 36. Decidedly the best harbour on the coast, being completely land-locked.
1868. Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric., 324. The taking of … land-locked salmon by any other means than by hook and hand-line is prohibited.
1876. Page, Adv. Text-bk. Geol., ii. 44. The shores of the land-locked Baltic.
b. Hemmed in, limited or hindered from movement by surrounding land.
1770. Baretti, Journ. Lond. to Genoa, I. xiv. 88. Our land-lock’d Ladies on the other side the Alps.
1847. Disraeli, Tancred, III. vii. The little caravan was apparently land-locked.
1855. Kingsley, Glaucus (1878), 62. Along a pleasant road, with land-locked glimpses of the bay.
