lock bay

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.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. [1913 Webster]

2.A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable. [1913 Webster]

Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages.— De Quincey.[1913 Webster]

3.A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

4.The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal. [1913 Webster]

5.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. [1913 Webster]

6.That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc. [1913 Webster]

7.A device for keeping a wheel from turning. [1913 Webster]

8.A grapple in wrestling. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Detector lock, a lock containing a contrivance for showing whether it as has been tampered with.

Lock bay (Canals), the body of water in a lock chamber.

Lock chamber, the inclosed space between the gates of a canal lock.

Lock nut. See Check nut, under Check.

Lock plate, a plate to which the mechanism of a gunlock is attached.

Lock rail (Arch.), in ordinary paneled doors, the rail nearest the lock.

Lock rand (Masonry), a range of bond stone. --Knight.

Mortise lock, a door lock inserted in a mortise.

Rim lock, a lock fastened to the face of a door, thus differing from a mortise lock. [1913 Webster]