Clues for the word "LOCK"
We've had 101 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 159 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on August 28, 2025.
Definition of lock
- n. - A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
- n. - Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened.
- n. - A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- n. - A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
- n. - The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
- n. - An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.
- n. - That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
- n. - A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- n. - A grapple in wrestling.
- v. t. - To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc.
- v. t. - To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.
- v. t. - To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.
- v. t. - To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
- v. t. - To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- v. t. - To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
- v. i. - To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.
Referring Clues
- Canal device
- It may be picked
- Wrestling hold
- Canal section
- Sure winner
- Combination ___
- Hard-to-break hold
- Canal feature
- Place for tumblers
- ___ horns (tangle)
- Fasten securely
- Door fastener
- Canal gate
- Canal part
- Shoo-in
- Sure thing
- It might be picked
- Hair piece
- Sure thing, to a bettor
- Hair sample
- Key partner
- It may have a combination
- Word with vapor or combination
- Door-securing device
- Clue for 20-, 32-, 39- and 48-Across
- Love ______
- Yale product
- Key's partner
- Door fixture
- Tress
- Door feature
- Bolt down
- Three ___ box
- Where tumblers can be found
- Security device
- Product of Yale
- Sure bet
- Security item
- Deadbolt, for one
- Door securer
- Secure, as a door
- "___ up"
- Tuft of hair
- Fix in position
- Ringlet
- Certainty: slang
- Symbol on a secure website
- What a key fits into
- Deadbolt, e.g.
- Sure winner, in sports slang
- Bit of hair
- Turn the deadbolt
- Become immovable
- Gym-goer's need
- Dokken: "Under ___ and Key"
- Black Lips "___ and Key"
- Canal feature - hair piece
- Fastening device
- See 15
- Return of Colonel K's hairpiece?
- Strand(s) of hair
- Officer returned to cocktail bar
- Security device - tuft of hair
- Ending for wed, dead or head
- Security device - bit of hair
- Chub, say, may be found in stretch of river
- Secure a position at Rugby
- Kelvin replaces a student in local 9
- See 3
- Security letting craft through?
- Key position in rugby?
- Secure forward position
- Certainty
- Bar brawl's conclusion - punch strikes head
- Shylock, timid no longer, is secure
- Piece of hair from player in scrum?
- Security to change levels?
- Hank's vulgar face about to go
- Jam in cupboard, a third gone
- Sure thing, in sports
- Product of Yale or Medeco
- Key's target
- Overwhelming favorite, informally
- Zip ___ ( food saver)
- What a key opens
- Secure bit of hair
- Under ___ and key (well-secured)
- Stone-cold cinch
- Bolt
- Device with tumblers
- Strand of hair
- One possibly picked for the rugby team?
- Make secure
- Bike security device
- Bike securer
- ___ and key
- U-shaped bike accessory
- Tress of hair
- Secure with a key
- Key turning point?
- Secure
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - August 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 16, 2025
- New York Times - February 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 20, 2024
- USA Today - December 20, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 12, 2024
- Daily American - December 08, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 08, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 06, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 04, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 23, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 14, 2024
- LA Times - March 31, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 27, 2024
- USA Today - September 04, 2023
- Family Time - March 19, 2023
- Daily American - December 08, 2022
- Family Time - October 24, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - September 14, 2022
- Family Time - September 12, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 28, 2022
- New York Times - January 06, 2022
- New York Times - November 06, 2021
- Washington Post Classic - February 04, 2018
- Penny Dell Daily - January 30, 2018
- New York Times - January 26, 2018
- Mirror Daily - December 04, 2017
- Jonesin - November 28, 2017
- Guardian Quick - November 17, 2017
- And in 129 more crossword puzzles...