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locked

/lɑkt/ adjective A2
  1. Having undergone locking; secured by a lock. · A locked door barred the way.
  2. Protected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource. · You can't delete a locked computer file.
  3. Bound to a carrier.
  4. Styled into dreadlocks; wearing dreadlocks.
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They are all locked on, for Oz so ordered it when the City was first built, and I have the only key that will unlock them.”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 62 · B2
I went to my work as usual at ten o’clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the panel with a tack.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 14 · B2
Then he led them into his little room and locked the spectacles from the great box on all their eyes, just as he had done before.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 102 · B2
The officer opened the door, which was locked, and, without speaking a word, answered Dantès’ question; for he saw between the ranks of the soldiers a passage formed from the carriage to the port.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 71 · C1

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