Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fasten with two bolts; secure with double fastenings.
- To lock by turning the key twice, as in some forms of lock.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.
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Examples
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The first officer handcuffs Jaime, making sure to double-lock the cuffs.
The End is Nigh: September 24th | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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She was about to add, “Be sure to double-lock the door behind me,” but pressed her lips together.
The Shadow of Your Smile MARY HIGGINS CLARK 2010
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She was about to add, “Be sure to double-lock the door behind me,” but pressed her lips together.
The Shadow of Your Smile MARY HIGGINS CLARK 2010
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She was about to add, “Be sure to double-lock the door behind me,” but pressed her lips together.
The Shadow of Your Smile MARY HIGGINS CLARK 2010
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When you start The Sculptor, get ready for an all-nighter, and double-lock your doors!
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When you start The Sculptor, get ready for an all-nighter, and double-lock your doors!
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At least 15 touch-screen voting machines that produced improbable numbers in Ohio's 2006 statewide election are now under double-lock in an official crime scene.
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At least 15 touch-screen voting machines that produced improbable numbers in Ohio's 2006 statewide election are now under double-lock in an official crime scene.
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: Ohio's Voting Machines Are Now An Official Crime Scene 2008
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It is not a rich old gentleman, with the gout in his vitals, brushed and got-up once a year to look as vigorous as possible, and brought out for a public airing by the few survivors of a large family of nephews and nieces, who afterwards double-lock the street-door upon the poor relations.
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Mabell saw her, tremblingly, and in a hurry, take the key of her chamber-door out of her pocket, and unlock it; and, as soon as she entered, heard her double-lock, bar, and bolt it.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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