jail lock

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English

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Jail lock (Scandinavian padlock)

Noun

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jail lock (plural jail locks)

  1. A kind of cast-iron padlock.
    Synonym: Scandinavian padlock
    • 1887, Minnesota State Board of Corrections and Charities, Biennial Report of the State Board of Corrections and Charities:
      The outer, and inner entrance doors have jail locks.
    • 1927, New York Legislative Documents - Volume 20, page 343:
      To prevent this and the possibility of scandal (which could happen on trumped up charges) a grated steel door with jail lock should be placed on this doorway.
    • 2007, Graham Pulford, High-Security Mechanical Locks: An Encyclopedic Reference, →ISBN:
      Also known as jail locks, Scandinavian padlocks were made from cast components, having a malleable iron body, shackle, and key.
    • 2009, Michael Norman, The Nearly Departed, →ISBN:
      An old jail lock hanging on the wall swayed back and forth.
    • 2013, Robin Sterling, People and Things from the Cullman, Alabama Tribune 1877, →ISBN:
      The locks to the doors must be the Scandinavian Jail Lock.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jail,‎ lock.

Further reading

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  • jail lock”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.