Lock-chain Bridles. See [Ordnance, Construction of, The Caisson].
Lock-chain Hooks. See [Ordnance, Construction of, The Caisson].
Lock-chains. Are chains used to lock the wheels of field- and siege-carriages, or to prevent them from turning. For siege-carriages the chain has a shoe at the end, which goes under the wheel and lifts it from the ground. In field-carriages the chain is passed around one of the felloes and secured to itself by a key. In both carriages the chain is secured to the stock by an assembling-bolt.
Lock-chains. See [Ordnance, Construction of, The Caisson].
Locket. The chape of a sword-scabbard.
Locking-plates. Are thin, flat pieces of iron on the sides of a field-carriage, where the wheels touch it in turning, to prevent the wearing of the wood in those places. These plates are commonly called wheel-guard plates.
Lock-plate. The plate in a small-arm which covers the lock and to which the mechanism is attached.
Lockspit. In field fortification, a small cut or trench made with a spade, about a foot wide, to mark out the first lines of a work.
Lock-step. A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with and closely follows the corresponding leg of the person directly before him.
Locri, or Locri Epizephyrii (now Motta di Burzano). A town of the Greek Locrians in Italy, on the southeast coast of the Bruttian peninsula. An important event in its history is the battle at the river Sagras, in which 10,000 Locrians and a few Rhegian auxiliaries defeated, with great carnage, an army of 130,000 Crotoniats. They were allies of the Romans against Pyrrhus; but after the battle of Cannæ, 210 B.C., revolted to the Carthaginians, and did not resume the yoke of Rome until 205 B.C. From this period Locri seems to have gradually declined in importance.