LOCK Copy link • LOCK 1. An instrument for fastening, claustrum. ☞ The ancients used a bolt or bar in the place of our lock and key; in some cases they had a contrivance, by means of a thong with a loop or hook, for removing the bolt from the outside of a door; sometimes, also, they employed a seal; e.g., Plaut., Cas., 2, 1, 1, obsignate cellas, referte annulum ad me; as if one should say, lock them up and bring the key to me. To put under lock and key, sub signo et claustris ponere. A wear; dam, objectaculum (Varr.). A tuft of hair, cirrus (natural): cincinnus (artificial): annulus (ringlet). Part of a gun, *igniarium. 2. v. To fasten with a lock, claustrum objicere alicui rei: to lock up, claudere; concludere. ☞ The ancients sometimes employed a seal instead of a lock and key; hence the classical phrases, signare: obsignare: annulo vindicare: to lock up in anything, concludere, includere (to shut in) in re: to lock one’s self up in Ike house, se includere domi: to lock anyone up (in prison), aliquem in custodiam includere. To trig (a wheel), (rotam) sufflamipare (Sen.).