Padlock

Definition of padlock:

part of speech: verb

To fasten with such a lock.

part of speech: noun

A lock catching into a staple.

part of speech: noun

A portable lock with a jointed link to pass through a staple or eye.

part of speech: verb

To fasten with a padlock.

Usage examples for padlock:

• We'll turn it on its side, put hinges and a padlock on the cover to make it into a door, and fix up shelves. "Ethel Morton's Enterprise", Mabell S.C. Smith.

• If the passengers an' the express company get their money back, they'll be glad to let it go at that, an' I'll buy 'em a new padlock for the express box. "The Long Chance", Peter B. Kyne.

• On arriving in the evening, they found that the Burggraf had fallen ill, and could not sleep in the chamber leading to the vault, because it belonged to the ladies' chambers, and that he had therefore put a cloth over the padlock of the door and sealed it. "A Book of Golden Deeds", Charlotte M. Yonge.

• There is no one to mind the gate and let people through, and we've no key to the padlock "The Patchwork Girl of Oz", L. Frank Baum.