handlock

Example Sentences

• "This efficient assembly is mounted on anti-vibration points, and handlocks enable the trolley to be rigidly fixed in pre-set and intermediate focusing positions."
• "Rowe International, Inc., subsidiary of Triangle Industries, Inc., Whippany, N. J. BBC 8 combination coin and bill changer, features roller take-in feed, modular coin tubes, twist-out handlock that can be recombinated on location."
• ""Handlock" deck covers are available for access to tank cleaning holes and other types of openings on barges, tankers and cargo vessels. They can be installed by setting a cover down over a hole and turning the handlock."
• "Hugh MacGerrald, being duly sworn and examined, deposeth that he was apprehended by William Graeme, the Provost Marshal, who kept him seven days in his custody, tied with a handlock, and two several times the said Graham threatened to hang this examt. if he would not do service against Phelim MacPheagh, one time sending for a ladder, and another time shewing a tree, whereupon he would hang him and the ropes and withes, but the examt. making protestation of having no matter to lay to the said Phelim's charge did choose rather to suffer than to impeach him without a cause."
• "The priest, being put into a handlock, is sent with a captain and a good guard of soldiers about this business, who guided them to a wood, six miles from the castle, by reason of thick briars and thorns almost impassable, in the midst whereof there is a hollow cave within the ground, not much unlike, by description, Cacus's den, or the mouth of Avernus, in which desolate place they found that old woman and this young child, whom they brought to the governor, and the priest and child were shortly after sent to the President."
• "On the screen near the door is a handlock, so shaped as to fasten a man's hand whilst water, or perchance ale, was poured down the sleeve of his doublet."