lockspit

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noun

A trench dug in the ground to mark a boundary or other imaginary line.

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Meanings

nounlockspit (plural lockspits)

plural lockspits

  1. cartographyA trench dug in the ground to mark a boundary or other imaginary line.

    Lockspits will not be shown [on maps] in bogs except where they occur on County, Barony and Townland Boundaries.

    1966, Blue Book 1966, Southampton: Ordnance Survey
    1 more example

    The widening of the river referred to in items […] was carried out by first cutting a V-shaped trench or lockspit throughout the length of the widenings on the line of the proposed new river bank […].

    1937, Transactions of the Institution of Engineers amd Shipbuilders, volume 80, page 8
verblockspit (third-person singular simple present lockspits, present participle lockspiting, simple past and past participle lockspited)

present singular third person lockspits · participle present lockspiting · participle past lockspited · past lockspited

  1. to dig a such a trench

Origin

Apparently: lock (“fastening”) + spit (“spade's depth”)

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

slicktop
Cite this entry
APA

lockspit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lockspit

MLA

“lockspit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lockspit. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lockspit,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lockspit.

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