| 单词 | under lock |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunder (†a or †one's) lock P2. under (†a or †one's) lock: securely locked up; in (one's) safekeeping. [Compare Anglo-Norman desuz loc (1352 or earlier). ΚΠ ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 89 (MED) Þare es na thing vnder lokk, and als riche es a man as anoþer. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 373 (MED) Kepenge hit with grete diligence vnder a locke. 1612 S. Daniel First Pt. Hist. Eng. i. 56 The wife, vnlesse the thing stolne, were found vnder her locke, should not be guilty of her husbands offence. 1685 W. Clark Grand Tryal xxiv.196 Yet are their minds not pleas'd, Until they have these Wretches in the tail, And either under lock, or under bail. 1715 Persecution Expos'd 151 While we were kept there under lock, we could not do it. 1849 J. W. Marston Strathmore ii. i. 19 To hear them talk this morning! One would guess They'd King and country under lock. 1889 Missionary Rev. of World Dec. 912 They were..such thieves that she could leave nothing except under lock. 1906 C. L. Marlatt & W. A. Orton Control of Codling Moth & Apple Scab (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 247) 12 All packages, boxes, or bottles containing these materials should be plainly labeled and kept under lock. 1991 Cruising World Nov. 36/3 Foreign boats could have guns impounded or could be required to secure them under lock while in port. 2011 J. Dixon Beaten, Seared & Sauced 149 I..got some of the black steel pans used for making this dish that Smythe kept under lock by his desk. < as lemmas |
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