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locket|ˈlɒkɪt|
Forms: 4 lokat, 5 loket, 6 lockett, -itt, Sc. lokart, 6– locket.
[ad. OF. locquet, loquet, luquet (mod.F. loquet latch), dim. of loc latch, lock (recorded chiefly as AF.), of Teut. origin, cognate with lock n.2]
†1. One of the iron cross-bars of a window. Obs.
1354Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 92 In mercede fabri facientis pragges et lokats de ferro suo proprio pro fenestris figendis. 1541in Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scotl. (1862) III. 163 And to put in ilk lycht of the wyndois grete lokartis of irne for binding of glas thareto. 1598in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 252 In euery light one vpright barr and fiue Crosse barrs or locketts.
attrib.1379Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 101 Et in C loket⁓nayles 3½d. Ibid. 102 Et in lxx loketnayles, 2d.
2. One of the metal plates or bands on a scabbard.
1562Act 5 Eliz. c. 7 No person..shall bring..into this Realme..Hiltes, Pommeles, Lockettes, Chapes, Dagger Blades [etc.]. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Locket,..that part of a Sword-scabbard, where the Hook is fastened. 1879Unif. Reg. in Navy List (1882) July 487/2 Scabbard.—The top and middle lockets to be four and three inches and a half long respectively.
†3. A fastening or socket; Naut. (see quot. a 1642). Obs.
a1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii. (1704) 346/1 Lockets are the Holes the Pintle of the Murderers goes into. 1664Butler Hudibras ii. i. 808 That other Virtuous School of Lashing; Where Knights are kept in narrow lists, With wooden Lockets 'bout their wrists.
†4. A group of small jewels set in a pattern. Obs.
1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 12 Like a Locket of Diamonds, or a Sett of round Crystal Beads. 1696Bp. Patrick Comm. Exod. xxviii. (1697) 541 Twelve Ouches, in which every single Stone was set, as we see it now, in our present Lockets. 1704Lond. Gaz. No. 3984/4 Lost,..a Gold Case of a Watch, set on the outside with nine Lockets, and little Diamonds between. 1706Phillips, Locket, a Set of Diamonds, or other Jewels.
5.
†a. ‘A small lock; any catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament’ (J.). Obs. Hence the now current sense
b. A small case of gold or silver, containing a miniature portrait, a lock of hair, etc., and worn (usually, suspended from the neck) as an ornament.
For a passage c 1320 often quoted as an example of this sense, see loket.
a.1727Bailey vol. II, Locket, a little Lock of a Gold Chain. 1765Ann. Reg. 152 The [nabob's] turban..has a top..most ingeniously contrived with lockets and springs to take in or let out.
b.1679[see hair n. 10]. 1720Gay Poems II. 399 Some by a snip of woven hair In posied lockets bribe the fair. 1838Dickens O. Twist xxxviii, It contained a little gold locket: in which were two locks of hair. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib. II. xxxiii. 45 Locket, fine brilliant centre and drop, pierced open setting.
Hence ˈlocketed ppl. a. (a) Ornamented with a locket. (b) Set in a locket.
1871G. A. Sala in Belgravia XIV. 430 Somebody..was highly curled, oiled, ringed, chained, pinned, and locketed. 1901Academy 10 Aug. 110/1 His [Geo. IV's] request to be buried in his night-shirt, beneath which was a locketed portrait of Mrs. Fitzherbert. |