Word Meanings - DEPUTATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who deputes, or makes a deputation. Locke.

LOCKER
1. One who, or that which, locks. 2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. Chain locker , a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or
LOCKET
1. A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament. 2. A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
DEPUTATION
1. The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency. The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God. South. 2. The person or
LOCKEN
of Lock. Chaucer.
MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
LOCKED-JAW
See LOCKJAW
GLOCKENSPIEL
An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.
UNDERLOCKER
A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer.
SLOCK; SLOCKEN
To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake.
LANDLOCKED
Confined to a fresh-water lake by reason of waterfalls or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after spawning; as, the landlocked salmon. (more info) 1. Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, by land.