LOCK, To. To entangle the lower yards when tacking.
LOCKAGE. The cost of passing vessels through canal-locks.
LOCKER. Divisions in cabins and store-rooms.—Boatswain's locker. A chest in small craft wherein material for working upon rigging is kept.—Chain-locker or chain-well, where the chain-cables are kept; best abreast the main-mast, as central weight, but often before the fore-mast.—Davy Jones' locker. The bottom of the sea, where nothing is lost, because you know where it is.—Shot-lockers, near the pump-well in the hold. Also, the receptacle round the coamings of hatchways.
LOCKET. The chape of a sword-scabbard.
LOCK-FAST. A modified principle in the breech-loading of fire-arms.
LOCKING-IN. The alternate clues and bodies of the hammocks when hung up.
LOCK, STOCK, AND BARREL. An expression derived from fire-arms, and meaning the whole.
LOC-MEN, or Loco-men. An old term for pilots.
LOCOMOTIVE-POWER. The force of sails and wind, or steam.
LODE-MANAGE, or Lodemanship. The hire of a pilot. It also meant both pilotage and seamanship; whence Chaucer—