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▪ I. padlock, n.|ˈpædlɒk|
Formerly often as two words, pad lock, or hyphened, pad-lock.
[f. pad, of uncertain meaning + lock n.2
An obvious suggestion is that the first element is pad n.4, basket, pannier, hamper. But there is no early evidence that a pad-lock was orig. used to fasten a pannier. Also, if pad in Rogers' Agric. & Prices, cited under pad n.6, occurs in the orig. documents, these are much earlier than any instance yet found of pad, ped, ‘basket’, which is besides of rare and local occurrence.]
A detachable or portable lock, designed to hang on the object fastened, having a pivoted or sliding bow or shackle, which can be opened to pass through a staple or ring, and then locked so as to engage a hasp, the links of a chain, etc.
dead padlock, a simple padlock having no spring.
[1453in Rogers Agric. & Prices III. 554/4 Padlock /3.] 1478–9in Swayne Sarum Churchw. Acc. 366 A Padlokke to the Church, 1½d. 1508in Kerry St. Lawrence's, Reading (1883) 24 Payed for a padlok to the font, iijd. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 170 Beware it breede not a pad⁓locke on thy heele. 1569Nottingham Rec. IV. 134 A pad locke for the Coppy yatte. 1649C. Walker Hist. Independ. ii. 56 The Zealots of the Commons were very angry at the Lords, and threatned to clap a Pad lock on the Dore of their House. 1663Gerbier Counsel 96 Hung at the one end in an iron ring, at the other end in a like ring, both united with a strong Padlock. 1686tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 159 In a Portmantle lockt with a Padlock. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 22 Trunk-Locks, Pad-Locks, etc. 1874J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Churches 219 These may be fastened with staples and padlocks.
fig.1658W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. Verse 14. iii. v. (1669) 84/1 The light of a holy conversation hangs as it were a padlock on profane lips. 1742Pope Dunc. iv. 162 We hang one jingling padlock on the mind. 1822Byron Werner iv. i, That Word will, I think, put a firm padlock on His further inquisition. 18..Lowell Capture Fugit. Slaves, Put golden padlocks on Truth's lips.
▪ II. padlock, v.|ˈpædlɒk|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To fasten with or secure by means of a padlock.
1645Milton Colast. Wks. (1851) 353 Let not..such an unmercifull..yoke bee padlockt upon the neck of any Christian. 1722De Foe Plague (Rtldg.) 71 The Officers had Orders to Padlock up the Doors. 1828Scott F.M. Perth vii, My mouth shall never be padlocked by any noble of them all. 1884Law Rep. 13 Q. Bench Div. 455 The dock company..padlocked the doors.
Hence padlocked |ˈpædlɒkt| ppl. a.
1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 70 A little padlocked chest. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Wealth Wks. (Bohn) II. 73 High stone fences and padlocked garden gates. |