inlock

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ lock.

Verb

inlock (third-person singular simple present inlocks, present participle inlocking, simple past and past participle inlocked)

1. (transitive) To lock in.
2. (transitive) To enclose.

Noun

inlock (plural inlocks)

1. A locking in.
   • 1898, The Western dental journal:

     The lower jaw slides forward on account of the inlock of these upper teeth.

2. That which is locked in.
3. An inner or interior lock.
4. (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.

Anagrams

• lock in, lock-in, lockin