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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. simple past tense and past participle of padlock.
Etymologies
- Middle English padlok : pad-, of unknown meaning + lok, lock; see lock1.
Examples
“He recalled the padlocked barracks, the emptyness, the air of desertion.”
Two in Time
“Their mouths can be padlocked, which is an important matter.”
The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries
“The boat's crew boss also he had in, to give assurance, as was the custom nightly, that the whale-boats were hauled up and padlocked.”
“During that period, he watched the town of McKeesport, Pa., go from a bustling steel town driven by industry to a rusty one with a padlocked steel mill, he says.”
“Several stone tablets from different Kaifeng synagogues are stored in an unmarked, padlocked room in the Kaifeng Municipal Museum.”
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“Instructions on the library's padlocked door explain how to obtain a membership card.”
“The front gate to the drive was chained and padlocked, but it was easy to squeeze through the fence and set up a little camp in the overgrown shrubbery.”
“Houdini toyed with death at every padlocked corner.”
“Houdini modified the escape by having the milk can chained and padlocked inside a wooden chest.”
“Houdini would be handcuffed and sealed inside an over-sized milk can filled with water -- which would be padlocked -- and make his escape behind a curtain.”
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