Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An air-tight chamber in a caisson in which operations are carried on under water, communicating by one door with the outer air and the main entrance-shaft of the caisson, and by another door with the chambers filled with condensed air in which the men are at work.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word air-lock.
Examples
-
The Criten leaped for the ideational air-lock and activated the mechanism.
Project Armageddon, or The Beam O’Doom: Putting the Lid Where It Belongs « Unknowing 2010
-
The door was sucked shut, the system hummed, clicked, whirred very oddly ... in a way the Criten had never heard an air-lock whirr ... and then the outer door popped loose.
Project Armageddon, or The Beam O’Doom: Putting the Lid Where It Belongs « Unknowing 2010
-
Alan came forward, as they were opening the air-lock, and the women pressed after him.
-
Had he been able do so they would have lived just long enough to open the air-lock.
-
I'll start peeping Spaceland for Reich and Hassop at once, "Powell said as the launch drifted down for the passage through the air-lock," but I want to check a hunch first.
-
In the last really fake moment, Zarek and Gaeta are seated in an air-lock and Adama leads the firing squad because we were told "there will be a reckoning."
VARIANTS: BLOOD ON THE SCALES - REVIEW radii 2009
-
When the tiny ethership Hornet slipped from her air-lock in the side of the H-4, Thia was beside Cliff at the controls.
"Thia of the Drylands" by Harl Vincent, part 5 Johnny Pez 2009
-
When the tiny ethership Hornet slipped from her air-lock in the side of the H-4, Thia was beside Cliff at the controls.
Archive 2009-12-01 Johnny Pez 2009
-
In the last really fake moment, Zarek and Gaeta are seated in an air-lock and Adama leads the firing squad because we were told "there will be a reckoning."
Archive 2009-02-01 radii 2009
-
Very probably Zarek's coup works for a while but Kara, Lee, Helo, Adama, Roslin and others including Cylons overcome it and this is when Roslin shouts "I'm coming for all of you," and Adama is seen blindfolded in an air-lock.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.