Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Secured or firmly fastened by some locking device, as a door, chest, press, nut, etc.
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- adjective Scotland Fastened or secured with a
lock .
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Examples
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Julian at length called to the female, — “Catherine, bestir thee, and fetch me presently that letter which I bade thee keep ready at hand in thy casket, having no sure lockfast place of my own.”
The Monastery 2008
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One day he produced my belt from a lockfast drawer.
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All the lockfast places had been broken open in quest of the chart.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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You've two rifles and a pair of revolvers in the lockfast by your cabin there.
All the Brothers Were Valiant Ben Ames Williams 1921
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He crossed the cabin to a lockfast, and opened it, and took out the two pairs of heavy ship's irons that lay there.
All the Brothers Were Valiant Ben Ames Williams 1921
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One day he produced my belt from a lockfast drawer.
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One day he produced my belt from a lockfast drawer.
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In darkness and silence the Tower of London stands -- the symbol of all lockfast places in the Empire -- every one of them subject to "King Edward's Keys."
King Edward's Keys 1910
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How has this man, in nine short years, been able to open these lockfast places?
King Edward's Keys 1910
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One day he produced my belt from a lockfast drawer.
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1907
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