inlock
English
Etymology
Verb
inlock (third-person singular simple present inlocks, present participle inlocking, simple past and past participle inlocked)
- (transitive) To lock in.
- (transitive) To enclose.
Noun
inlock (plural inlocks)
- A locking in.
- 1898, The Western dental journal:
- The lower jaw slides forward on account of the inlock of these upper teeth.
- 1898, The Western dental journal:
- That which is locked in.
- An inner or interior lock.
- (law, UK dialectal, Northern England) Any corner or part of a common field plowed up and sowed with oats, etc. and sometimes fenced in with a dry hedge while the lave of the field lies fallow and common.