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lockman

[ US /ˈɫɑkmən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal)

How To Use lockman In A Sentence

  • Hasinger and his colleagues have combined XMM and Infrared Space Observatory measurements of the Lockman Hole, putting a lower limit— 15percent—on the AGN contribution to the infrared background.
  • “Just the post of under-turnkey, for I understand there’s a vacancy,” said the prisoner; “I wadna think of asking the lockman’s place ower his head; it wadna suit me sae weel as ither folk, for I never could put a beast out o’ the way, much less deal wi’ a man.” The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • There is another, called the Speech and dying words of John Dalgleish, lockman alias hangman of Edinburgh, containing these lines: -- -- Death, I've a Favour for to beg, That ye wad only gie a Fleg, And spare my Life; As I did to ill-hanged Megg, The Webster's Wife. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • Zachary Lockman's book is an accessible precis of that story.
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