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Definition of Safety lock

1. Noun. Guard consisting of a locking device that prevents a weapon from being fired.

2. Noun. A bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Safety Lock

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Literary usage of Safety lock

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1877)
"On a Safety-Lock for Facing-points. By MORTIMER EVANS. On the Experiments made at the Camp at Aldershot with a new form of Military Field-Railway, ..."

2. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1878)
"... Annett'a safety lock has been invented. The drawing shows a siding in communication with the down main line. Both the "main line" and the "safety" or ..."

3. Text-book of Ordnance and Gunnery by William Harvey Tschappat (1917)
"The safety lock 36 consists of a small plr pivoted near the rearmost point of the receiver. When the &!• is in its forward position and the hammer 23 is ful ..."

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