S is a set chisel, which, by being struck with hammer blows, closes the bulged metal back again on the dovetail of the feather, and firmly locks it in the shaft.
Screwing up this stud locks M fast by binding it against the surface of G.
This prevents the fluid in B from flowing from one end of the cylinder to the other, and thus securely locks the piston B in the position it may happen to be in, and at the same time the valve H shuts off steam from the cylinder A.
Upon screwing the nut upon the bolt the latter forces the split nut open again by thread pressure, and this pressure locks the nut.
The tool T is carried in the tool post P, being secured therein by the set screw shown, which at the same time locks the tool post to the upper slider.
B a block W is inserted, the faces of the block and bolt being taper to fit to a taper key K, so that driving K locks both the bolt and the block in the stone.
C carries the tooth D home to its seat and locks it there.
The work-holding table rotates about the column of the machine, and is arranged with a stop motion that locks the table in position when the work-holding chucks are exactly in line with the drill spindles.
At E is the lug (shown also at E in the general view) which has a hole to receive a rod P, and is split through at S, so that operating binding screw L locks rod P in E.
These two gears are loose on the tail screw, and a clutch operated by lever T locks either one to the screw.
This locksthe horn in the clamp and permits the dog to adjust itself to accommodate the motion endwise that occurs when it is revolved.
But when a handsome stranger, with perfumed locks and costly garments, suddenly meets the maiden, Aphrodite's little son fits an arrow to his golden bow.
Loni would tear the gold circlet from his dyed black locks and, in his exaggerated manner, call himself a son of misfortune, and her the greatest artist who had ever trodden the rope.
A wreath again encircled her head, but this time blossoming myrtles blended with the laurel in the brown curls that lay in thick, soft locks on the snowy pillows and the lace-trimmed shroud.
They learned to babble and coo, then to walk and talk, for in this respect the sons of dukes with grey locks are just like other boys.
The experienced physician shook his white locks gravely and said: "Whoever uttered that is near the end of his sufferings.
It follows, then, the cat must stay at home; Yet that is but a crush'd necessity, Since we have locksto safeguard necessaries And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves.
Often on high Parnassus a roving Liber in hurried 390 Frenzy the Thyiads drave, their locks blown loosely, before him.
Holds not her yellow locks the tiara's feathery tissue; Veils not her hidden breast light brede of drapery woven; Binds not a cincture smooth her bosom's orbed emotion.
Properly, the wreaths are rosy, the locks snow-white; but the colour of the wreaths is so blent with the colour of the locks that each is lost in the other, and an inversion of epithets becomes possible.
They pulled him out, a sorry looking sight, and the red-haired lad, whose lockswere now black with muck, began to lament his lot.
Now that, with locks and with guards you pretend to secure her so snugly, Crowds of gallants flock around: faith, it is cleverly done.
With tottering step, and locks of gray, Essay'st each trick of antic glee, Oh!
Locks and bars, even the very seal of death itself, seemed unable to make for her a prison-house.
Yer eyes shone that bright that ye might ha' set her afire, for all her black locksand her winsome face.
The Greek princes, too, stood round the body, weeping and cutting off their long locks of yellow hair, a token of grief and an offering to the dead.
Mother, I must go to help him, and be the heir of his kingdom, where you shall be with me always, and rule the people of Cecrops that fasten the locks of their hair with grasshoppers of gold.
Long locks of ruddy hair hung upon his white shoulders: his eyes were lustrous, and had the lovely, soft light of the deer.
He had taken his hat from his head and was shading his eyes with it, and his thin locks were scattered carelessly over his brow.
She will not twine her wee fingers in your yellow locks any more, nor try to pick the big moles off your hard hands.
Alice saw that she was magnificently dressed, with an enormous expanse of robe, and that her locks had been so managed that no one could suspect the presence of a grey hair.
Lady Glencora, and then she kneeled at Alice's knees and threw her wavy locks abroad on Alice's lap.
It had been then, when the wayward heiress with the bright wavinglocks had been most strongly minded to give herself and her wealth to Burgo Fitzgerald.
It enters Cheshire at Stretford, and passing through Altrincham and Lymm extends a distance of twenty-four miles to Runcorn, where it descends by a series of locks to the tidal waters of the Mersey.
The entrance to the canal is at Eastham, where great locks were built.
Latchford serves as a port for Warrington, and the locks here always present a busy scene.
At Irlam locks the canal enters Lancashire, and its waters are at this point forty feet above sea-level.
At the temple Anthia dedicated locks of her hair with an inscription: "In behalf of her husband Habrocomes Anthia dedicates her locksto the god.
Those were exciting moments, as in the perfect silence which reigned the sharp clicking of the gun-locks sounded loud and strange.
The iron-work consists chiefly of Gothic locks and bolts, once attached to the doors and gates of feudal mansions.
It pulls down the shades on Sundays, eats cold meat and pickles, locks up bookcase and piano, and discharges the girl for walking with her beau.
The portrait is extremely characteristic: the forehead is bald, with a few locks of short curled hair behind the ears; and the face shaven, except that on the left of the mouth there is a mole covered with hair.
Peachy's disheveled hair drew down a rebuke from Miss Bickford, but this was such a very minor evil that she took it meekly, smoothed the offending elf-locks with her fingers, and composed her dimples to an expression of docile humility.
And, seating herself on the old man's knees, she put aside his whitelocks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow.
It was one of those prison locks which old Paris was so fond of lavishing.
He incessantly gazed at, and he sometimes touched lightly with his breath, the short locks on the nape of her neck, and he declared to himself that there was not one of those short hairs which did not belong to him, Marius.
He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the Boulevard des Invalides, a man dressed like a workingman and wearing a cap with a long visor, which allowed a glimpse of locks of very white hair.
The door of the dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door of a prison.
His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay radiance of his visage.
The nuptials of Amphitrite, a rosy cloud, nymphs with well dressed locks and entirely naked, an Academician offering quatrains to the goddess, a chariot drawn by marine monsters.
And they brandished aloft the scalp-locks they had taken.
Her grizzled locks assume a smirking grace, And art has levell’d her deep-furrow’d face.
He stood like a palm tree; about whose acanthus capital droops not more gracefully the silken fringes, than Media's locks upon his noble brow.
Condensing at last, there emerged from this mist the same radiant young Yillah as before; her locks all moist, and a rose- colored pearl on her bosom.
Now, no fair one with golden locks is more assiduously waited upon, or more delicately handled by her tire-women, than the slender whale- boat by her crew.
Twas but a thing--a thing lying inert, its fair locks outspread, its eyes rolled upward till the blue was almost lost; a purple indentation on the right temple from which there oozed a tiny thread of blood.
The sun shone on his bright falling locks and his blue eyes as she had seen it shine in days which seemed so strangely long passed by, though they were not five years agone.
His hands were as white and bejewelled as her own, his habit was of the latest fashionable cut, and his fair flowing locks scattered a delicate French perfume she did not even know the name of.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "locks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crop; fleece; hair; head; mane; mat; shock; thatch
