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jail lock en · NOUN

Meanings

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

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Scandinavian padlock