stock lock

noun

A lock enclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door.

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Meanings

nounstock lock (plural stock locks)

plural stock locks

  1. A lock enclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door.
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    Fortune at length did for me that which I had not been able to accomplish, by the greatest efforts, for myself. The lock that was on the door of my nightly prison was a large stock lock, and had been clumsily fitted on the door, so that the end of the lock pressed against the door-case, and made it difficult to shut the door even in dry weather.

    1860, Charles Ball, Fifty Years in Chains, or the Life of an American Slave, Chapter 19
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APA

stock lock. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stock%20lock

MLA

“stock lock.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stock%20lock. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stock lock,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stock%20lock.

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