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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
padlock .
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Examples
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He recalled the padlocked barracks, the emptyness, the air of desertion.
Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970
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Their mouths can be padlocked, which is an important matter.
The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866
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Houdini modified the escape by having the milk can chained and padlocked inside a wooden chest.
Harmon Leon: Harry Houdini and His Cunning Stunts at the Contemporary Jewish Museum Harmon Leon 2011
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Several stone tablets from different Kaifeng synagogues are stored in an unmarked, padlocked room in the Kaifeng Municipal Museum.
Chinese Jews Face Existential Questions Bob Davis 2011
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Houdini modified the escape by having the milk can chained and padlocked inside a wooden chest.
Harmon Leon: Harry Houdini and His Cunning Stunts at the Contemporary Jewish Museum Harmon Leon 2011
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Houdini toyed with death at every padlocked corner.
Harmon Leon: Harry Houdini and His Cunning Stunts at the Contemporary Jewish Museum Harmon Leon 2011
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During that period, he watched the town of McKeesport, Pa., go from a bustling steel town driven by industry to a rusty one with a padlocked steel mill, he says.
Their Kodak Moments Dana Mattioli 2012
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Instructions on the library's padlocked door explain how to obtain a membership card.
Guerrilla Librarians Making Noise Ashlea Halpern 2011
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The boat's crew boss also he had in, to give assurance, as was the custom nightly, that the whale-boats were hauled up and padlocked.
Chapter 1 2010
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The front gate to the drive was chained and padlocked, but it was easy to squeeze through the fence and set up a little camp in the overgrown shrubbery.
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