Word Meanings - LANDLOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.

Related words: (words related to LANDLOCK)

• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• HARBOR MASTER
  An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
• HARBOROUS
  Hospitable.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• INCLOSE
  Etym: 1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton. 2. To put within a case,
• NEARLY
  In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.
• HARBORLESS
  Without a harbor; shelterless.
• HARBORER
  One who, or that which, harbors. Geneva was . . . a harborer of exiles for religion. Strype.
• HARBOR
  The mansion of a heavenly body. 4. A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven. (more info) herberge,
• HARBORAGE
  Shelter; entertainment. Where can I get me harborage for the night Tennyson.
• HARBOROUGH; HARBROUGH
  A shelter. . Spenser.
• VESSEL
  Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. (more info) vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. Vascular, 1. A hollow or concave utensil for
• UNHARBOR
  To drive from harbor or shelter.
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• DEWAR VESSEL
  A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according
• ENHARBOR
  To find harbor or safety in; to dwell in or inhabit. W. Browne.
• BLOOD VESSEL
  Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.
• CURVILINEARLY
  In a curvilinear manner.
• UNVESSEL
  To cause to be no longer a vessel; to empty. Ford.
• DISINCLOSE
  To free from being inclosed.
• TANK SHIP; TANK VESSEL
  A vessel fitted with tanks for the carrying of oil or other liquid in bulk.