"lockspit" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: lockspits [plural]
Etymology: Apparently: lock (“fastening”) + spit (“spade's depth”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} lockspit (plural lockspits)
  1. (cartography) A trench dug in the ground to mark a boundary or other imaginary line. Categories (topical): Cartography
    Sense id: en-lockspit-en-noun-Mml31BM8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 95 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 91 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 94 6 Topics: cartography, geography, natural-sciences

Verb [English]

Forms: lockspits [present, singular, third-person], lockspiting [participle, present], lockspited [participle, past], lockspited [past]
Etymology: Apparently: lock (“fastening”) + spit (“spade's depth”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} lockspit (third-person singular simple present lockspits, present participle lockspiting, simple past and past participle lockspited)
  1. to dig a such a trench
    Sense id: en-lockspit-en-verb-s3J8pA2u

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "1937, Transactions of the Institution of Engineers amd Shipbuilders, volume 80, page 8:",
          "text": "The widening of the river referred to in items […] was carried out by first cutting a V-shaped trench or lockspit throughout the length of the widenings on the line of the proposed new river bank […].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1966, Blue Book 1966, Southampton: Ordnance Survey:",
          "text": "Lockspits will not be shown [on maps] in bogs except where they occur on County, Barony and Townland Boundaries.",
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        }
      ],
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        [
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        ],
        [
          "mark",
          "mark"
        ],
        [
          "boundary",
          "boundary"
        ]
      ],
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        "(cartography) A trench dug in the ground to mark a boundary or other imaginary line."
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    }
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