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ˈstock-lock
[f. stock n.1 + lock n.]
A lock enclosed in a wooden case, usually fitted on an outer door.
1365–6in Brayley Anc. Palace Westminster (1836) 192, 18 stokloks. 1394in Archæologia XXIV. 308, ij stoklokkes. 1416–17Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 614 In 10 stoklockys et aliis feturlockys. 1534–5in 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. 1601Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 138 A stocke locke for the chamber dower at Symonston, viijd. 1677Moxon Mech. Exerc. ii. 21 Street-door Locks, called Stock-Locks. 1737Salmon's Country Builder's Estimator (ed. 2) 111 Plate Stock-Locks. 1757Phil. Trans. L. 106 Ripping off a small stock-lock from the door, [it] burst it open. 1771Roland Le Virloys Dict. Archit. III. Vocab. 184 Stock-lock, serrure à pêle [= pêne] dormant. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §84 Stock locks (locks with a wooden back, or stock). 1842Penny Cycl. XXII. 416/2, 191 men [employed] in the manufacture of stock-locks.
Hence † ˈstock-lock v. trans., to double-lock. (? Some error.)
1771Roland Le Virloys Dict. Archit. III. Vocab. 184 To Stock-lock, fermer à double tour. |