[f. LOCK v.1 + -ED1.] In senses of the vb.: Closed with a lock and key, closely fastened or entwined, etc. Also fig.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, IV. 234. A loklate [v.r. lokkit] bar, was drawyn ourthourth the dur.
1580. Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1832), 125. For taking awaye of ane lokit dur, wt key of ane stabill.
1605. B. Jonson, Volpone, IV. i. Your garbe … must be … Very reseru’d and lock’t.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., IV. iv. 39. Iniurie of chance … forcibly preuents Our lockt embrasures.
1857. Abridg. Specif. Patents Sewing, etc. (1871), 96. A locked tambour stitch having a running thread passed through the loops.
1871. Tyndall, Fragm. Sci. (1879), II. v. 63. By the same agent we tear asunder the locked atoms of a chemical compound.
1883. ‘Annie Thomas,’ Mod. Housewife, 134. I … left it in a locked drawer in my wardrobe.
1883. R. W. Dixon, Mano, II. iii. 72.
| Then the locked mountains either hand that stood | |
| Met knee to knee; and passage scarce there was. |
1895. R. Kipling, in Pall Mall Gaz., 30 July, 2/3. A locked and swaying mob that moved from right to left and from left to right along the bank.
1895. Westm. Gaz., 26 Nov., 2/3. Years of locked and agonised joints.
1902. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 12 April, 878. Limited movement in knee which becomes locked if moved much.
b. With up.
1593. Shaks., Lucr., 446. Shee much amaz’d breakes ope her lockt vp eyes.
1676. Mace, Musick’s Monument, title-p., All Its Occult Lock’d-up Secrets Plainly laid Open.
1721. Ramsay, Morning Interview, 8. He starts with lock’d-up eyes.
1854. Dickens, Hard T., II. i. A locked-up iron room with three locks.
1891. Daily News, 9 Dec., 6/3. Locked-up securities left on the hands of the bank.
c. Locked jaw: (a) a jaw set fast by spasmodic contraction of the muscles; (b) = LOCKJAW, and occas. = JAW-FALL 2.
(a) 1765. Phil. Trans., LV. 86. I was soon convinced she had that terrible symptom, a locked jaw.
1802. Mrs. Jane West, Infidel Father, III. 4. A private ball has been known to save half a county from such an immoderate fit of yawning, that people grew apprehensive of locked jaws.
1822–34. Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), II. 269. In some, a locked-jaw takes place about the seventh day from the operation.
(b) 1767. Gooch, Treat. Wounds, I. 331. A convulsive contraction called the locked-jaw came on.
1788. [see JAW-FALL 2].
1799. M. Underwood, Dis. of Childr. (ed. 4), I. 19, note. The formidable disease so fatal to new-born children in the West-Indies, called the locked-jaw, or jaw-fallen.
1841. Penny Cycl., XXI. 363/2. Locked-Jaw is not an infrequent disease among sheep.
1845. Carlyle, Cromwell (1873), I. i. 5. So that no man shall henceforth contemplate them … without danger of locked-jaw.
