"jail lock" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jail locks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "jail lock (plural jail locks)",
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1887, Minnesota State Board of Corrections and Charities, Biennial Report of the State Board of Corrections and Charities",
          "text": "The outer, and inner entrance doors have jail locks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1927, New York Legislative Documents - Volume 20, page 343",
          "text": "To prevent this and the possibility of scandal (which could happen on trumped up charges) a grated steel door with jail lock should be placed on this doorway.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Graham Pulford, High-Security Mechanical Locks: An Encyclopedic Reference",
          "text": "Also known as jail locks, Scandinavian padlocks were made from cast components, having a malleable iron body, shackle, and key.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Michael Norman, The Nearly Departed",
          "text": "An old jail lock hanging on the wall swayed back and forth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Robin Sterling, People and Things from the Cullman, Alabama Tribune 1877",
          "text": "The locks to the doors must be the Scandinavian Jail Lock.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A kind of cast-iron padlock."
      ],
      "id": "en-jail_lock-en-noun-OWQk25Vv",
      "links": [
        [
          "cast-iron",
          "cast-iron"
        ],
        [
          "padlock",
          "padlock"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Scandinavian padlock"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jail, lock."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "jail",
          "jail#English"
        ],
        [
          "lock",
          "lock#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jail lock"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jail locks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "jail lock (plural jail locks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1887, Minnesota State Board of Corrections and Charities, Biennial Report of the State Board of Corrections and Charities",
          "text": "The outer, and inner entrance doors have jail locks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1927, New York Legislative Documents - Volume 20, page 343",
          "text": "To prevent this and the possibility of scandal (which could happen on trumped up charges) a grated steel door with jail lock should be placed on this doorway.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Graham Pulford, High-Security Mechanical Locks: An Encyclopedic Reference",
          "text": "Also known as jail locks, Scandinavian padlocks were made from cast components, having a malleable iron body, shackle, and key.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Michael Norman, The Nearly Departed",
          "text": "An old jail lock hanging on the wall swayed back and forth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Robin Sterling, People and Things from the Cullman, Alabama Tribune 1877",
          "text": "The locks to the doors must be the Scandinavian Jail Lock.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A kind of cast-iron padlock."
      ],
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          "padlock",
          "padlock"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Scandinavian padlock"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jail, lock."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "jail",
          "jail#English"
        ],
        [
          "lock",
          "lock#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jail lock"
}