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Locker   /lˈɑkər/   Listen
noun
Locker  n.  
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 (Naut.), a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables.
Davy Jones's locker, or Davy's locker. See Davy Jones.
Shot locker, a compartment where shot are deposited.





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"Locker" Quotes from Famous Books



... escaped most narrowly. He was struck in three places; and a cannon-shot tore away the skirts of his coat. A button was afterwards found in the signal locker; and the shot broke one of the glasses and bulged the rim of the spectacles in his pocket. He gave the spectacles to his valued friend, the late gallant Sir Richard Keats, who caused their history to be engraven on them, and directed, ...
— The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth • Edward Osler
... they enjoyed fine sport, as Frank had said they would, and they were too much engaged to think of being hungry. But soon the fish began to stop biting, and Harry, who had waited impatiently for almost five minutes for a "nibble," drew up his line and opened a locker in the stern of the boat, and, taking out a basket containing their dinner, was about to make an inroad on its contents, when he discovered a boat, rowed by a boy about his own age, shoot rapidly around a point that extended for ...
— Frank, the Young Naturalist • Harry Castlemon
... I have written a daily introduction to the telegrams for one of the morning papers. Before I contemplated that work I had undertaken for my friend Mr. Locker, the Editor of The London Letter, to write a weekly review ...
— Lessons of the War • Spenser Wilkinson
... in a surprised tone, "the pot is almost empty. I guess you boys didn't make very much, did you? Here, Dave," he hurried on, "you chase yourself up to the Eagle and get some of that coffee out of the locker on the right-hand side. We'll brew another pot of it. I haven't begun ...
— Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal - or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol • G. Harvey Ralphson
... "you may make as much game on me as you like; but these here strange sort of doings are somehow quizzical; and, though I fears nothing in the shape of flesh and blood, still, when it comes to having to do with those as is gone to Davy Jones's locker like, it gives a fellow an all-overishness as isn't quite the thing. ...
— Wacousta: A Tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy (Complete) • John Richardson


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