A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc. / A small quantity of straw etc. / (Scotland, law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.

plural of lock

A head of hair; tresses. / (colloquial) Dreadlocks.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lock

Alternative form of lock-in

(transitive) To secure (someone or something) in a locked enclosure. / (transitive) To fix the value of (something potentially variable).

present participle of lock

The act by which something is locked. / (computing) The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.

(US) A sleepover party, usually held in a public place such as a church or school, in which the participants are not allowed to leave until the next morning.

(no longer productive) Action or proceeding, practice, ritual