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▪ I. locking, vbl. n.1|ˈlɒkɪŋ|
[f. lock v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of lock v.1 in various senses lit. and fig.; an instance of this.
1611Shakes. Cymb. i. v. 41 There is No danger in what shew of death it makes, More then the locking vp the Spirits a time. 1776G. Temple Building in Water 145 The locking of Headers and Stretchers together. 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 160/2 There was probably a locking of the bones with each other. 1842Syd. Smith Let. Locking in on Railw. Wks. 1859 II. 322/1 We have arranged our plan upon the locking-in system. 1860Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 53 All the hateful preparatory lockings up and packings well over. 1882Times 22 Feb., Such a gigantic ‘locking-up’ of produce as that. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 144 In this form of the lever escapement the pallets have not less than 10° of motion. Of this amount 2° are used for locking, and the remainder for impulse. The amount of locking is to some extent dependent on the size of the escapement... The lighter the locking the better. 1892Zangwill Bow Mystery 134 The outside locking could not have been effected if it [the key] had been in the lock.
2. concr. A contrivance for locking:
†a. a lock (obs.);
b. the piece of machinery in a watch, serving to lock the escapement.
1632Lithgow Trav. 457 Close vp sayd he, this window..with lyme and stone, stop the holes of the doore with double Matts, hanging another locking to it. 1816Mechanic I. 411 The locking may be compared to a light balance turning on fine pivots, without a pendulum-spring. 1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 410 Patent ‘diamond escapement’ as intended for the use of marine chronometers... The locking is intended to be jewelled.
3. a. With down. The action of providing locks for lowering a vessel on a canal. b. The action of lowering or raising a vessel by the use of a lock or locks: also with down, up.
1776in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 246 Concerning the locking down and making a bridge..for the canal. 1795J. Phillips Hist. Inland Navig. 361 The use, or locking down, is thus managed. Ibid. 362 For ascending, or locking up, the boat being in the lock, the lower gates are shut. 1840Evid. Hull Docks Comm. 122 They must enter by locking.
4. attrib. and Comb., chiefly Mech., denoting appliances serving to lock or engage one portion of a machine with another, as locking-bolt, locking-box, locking-brace, locking-clutch, locking-pole; locking-bar, -frame (see quots.); locking-pallet, -piece, a tooth of the detent, which engages successively the teeth of the escape-wheel; locking-plate, (a) = count-wheel (see count n.1 9); (b) in a lock; (c) a plate on a vehicle to take the wear of the fore-wheel when the vehicle is turning short; a rub-plate (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875); (d) a nut-lock (ibid. Suppl. 1884); locking-spring (see quot. 1884); locking-stone, the ‘jewel’ of an escapement; locking-wheel = locking-plate (a) and (c).
1889G. Findlay Eng. Railway 75 The ‘*Locking Bar’..is chiefly applied to siding points to prevent their being moved while a train is passing over them.
1881Greener Gun 206 In the snap principle, the *locking-bolt is forced into the bites or grips by a spring upon the gun being closed.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 38 The *locking-box [in a mill governor].
1868Rep. Munitions War 284 The hammer in its fall will force the *locking-brace to enter its proper position.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 38 A *locking clutch is fitted upon the spindle between these two wheels.
1889G. Findlay Eng. Railway 71 The ‘*locking-frame’ consists of a row of levers by means of which the signalman actuates every pair of points and every signal under his control.
1816Mechanic I. 373 A semi-cylindrical pin called the *locking-pallet.
Ibid. 194 This *locking-piece, or locking-pallet.
1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 242/2 In the real lock it [the bolt] would be called the *locking-plate. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 156 The locking plate, the earliest arrangement of striking work, is shown in the engraving of ‘De Vick's clock’.
1793Trans. Soc. Arts XI. 293 A cart..with a *locking-pole fixed to the wheel.
1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 49 Bayonet Making:..*Locking Ring Maker.
1678Lond. Gaz. No. 1296/4 The *locking Spring being lost from the Watch. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 156 [The] Locking Spring..[is] the spring of a watch case that keeps the cover closed against the force of the fly springs.
Ibid. 59 See that the face of the *locking stone is angled so as to give perceptible draw.
1704Harris Lex. Techn., Count-Wheel... It is by some called the *Locking Wheel, because it hath..Notches in it..in order to make the Clock strike 1, 2, 3, 4, &c. 1835Partington's Brit. Cycl. Arts & Sci. I. 283 A circular horizontal locking-wheel, formed of iron, is attached to the front part of the carriage.
▪ II. locking, vbl. n.2 Hat Manuf.|lɒkɪŋ|
[? f. lock n.1 + -ing1.]
(See quot.)
1900Ann. Rep. Insp. Factories for 1898 II. 167 Locking... This is the last stage before the fur passes to the felt hat manufacturer— the trays of shaven fur..are taken to women who remove the outer edges, leaving only the fur of the back which they compact by pressing it in the hand and place it in a bag. |
