(historical) A hospital for the isolation and treatment of lepers. / (historical) A hospital treating people with venereal diseases in which patients were kept confined until cured.

plural of lock hospital

(waterways) A simple single-gate lock on a river or canal.

A set of locks on a waterway canal which rise steeply, and consisting of lock gates where the top gate of one lock is also the bottom gate of the next lock, not having a pound between each level.

simple past tense and past participle of lock out

To suppress or hide (something) so that it is not readily available or capable of action. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see box, lock.

(film) The point at which a film has gone through final editing and will no longer undergo any visual changes.

(typewriting) A lock key on a typewriter, which, when pressed, causes all subsequently typed letters to be capitalized.

(railways) The lock of a reversible seat in railroad cars.

simple past tense and past participle of tick a lock