weighlock

English

Alternative forms

weigh lock

Etymology

weigh +‎ lock

Noun

weighlock (plural weighlocks)

1. A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “weighlock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)