[f. STOCK sb.1 + LOCK sb.] A lock enclosed in a wooden case, usually fitted on an outer door.

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1365–6.  in Brayley, Anc. Palace Westminster (1836), 192. 18 stokloks.

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1394.  in Archæologia, XXIV. 308. ij stoklokkes.

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1416–7.  Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 614. In 10 stoklockys et aliis feturlockys.

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1534–5.  in W. H. St. John Hope, Windsor Castle (1913), I. 264. For a doble hoopped stocke lock sett vppon the Colege garden dore to save the Kynges plaet locke oon to the begynnyng of somere, xvj d.

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1601.  Shuttleworths’ Acc. (Chetham Soc.), 138. A stocke locke for the chamber dower at Symonston, viijd.

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1677.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc., ii. 21. Street-door Locks, called Stock-Locks.

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1737.  Salmon’s Country Builder’s Estimator (ed. 2), 111. Plate Stock-Locks.

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1757.  Phil. Trans., L. 106. Ripping off a small stock-lock from the door, [it] burst it open.

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1771.  Roland Le Virloys, Dict. Archit., III. Vocab. 184. Stock-lock, serrure à pêle [= pêne] dormant.

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1833.  Loudon, Encycl. Archit., § 84. Stock locks (locks with a wooden back, or stock).

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1842.  Penny Cycl., XXII. 416/2. 191 men [employed] in the manufacture of stock-locks.

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  Hence † Stock-lock v. trans., to double-lock. (? Some error.)

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1771.  Roland Le Virloys, Dict. Archit., III. Vocab. 184. To Stock-lock, former à double tour.

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