lock

"Give me the key," said my mother; and though the lock was very stiff, she had turned it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling.

[…]the application must first acquire a lock on a file or a portion of a file before reading data and modifying it.

Here the canal came to a check, ending abruptly with a large lock.

"I never saw such a gun in my life," replied poor Winkle, looking at the lock, as if that would do any good.

Even though he had not yet done so, Jack felt he had a lock on the game.

Brian thinks she's a lock to get a scholarship somewhere.

Ashton only had to wait three minutes for his second try, lock Louis Deacon setting it up with a rollocking line-break, before Romania got on the scoreboard courtesy of a penalty from fly-half Marin Danut Dumbrava.

Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages

Sergestus, eager with his beak to press

Betwixt the rival galley and the rock,

Shuts up the unwieldy Centaur in the lock

They must be also practis'd in all the Locks and Gripes of Wrestling