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lockfast en · ADJ

Etymology

From lock + fast.

Meanings

1. (Scotland) Fastened or secured with a lock.
   • At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lockfast drawers stood open; […] 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 42:
   • It was such a scene of confusion as you can hardly fancy. All the lockfast places had been broken open in quest of the chart. 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part V (My Sea Adventure), page 201:

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