overlock
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Noun
overlock (plural overlocks)
Verb
overlock (third-person singular simple present overlocks, present participle overlocking, simple past and past participle overlocked)
- (sewing) To stitch in this manner.
- (transitive) To make the bolt of a lock go too far.
- 1857, Thomas Stewart Traill, The Encyclopaedia Britannica:
- The way to open it, then, is to turn the key the other way, as if to overlock the bolt […]
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