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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



... palace at Paris, when the owner was near his threescore years and ten, he took from a locker a morocco case, and opening it, showed his friend, Dumas, a long curl of yellow hair; and then he brought out a curious old white-silk dress, and said to the silent Dumas, "This curl was cut from my mother's head after her death, and ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 4 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters • Elbert Hubbard
... completely confounding the unfortunate parson warned Beauchamp that he might have a shot in his locker: the parson heavily trodden on will turn. 'I suppose we must be hypocrites,' he said in dejection. Dr. Shrapnel was even more melancholy. He again offered to try his persuasiveness upon Jenny. Beauchamp declined ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... two men, and bade the others take care of the ship she left behind until she returned. She took the little maid in her arms, and bade the men row across the current until they should reach the ship (of Giermund). She took a gimlet out of the boat's locker, and gave it to one of her companions, and bade him go to the cockle-boat belonging to the merchant ship and bore a hole in it so as to disable it if they needed it in a hurry. Then she had herself put ashore with the little maid still in her arms. This was at ...
— Laxdaela Saga - Translated from the Icelandic • Anonymous
... was alongside and made fast I went on board and had a good look at her interior, not forgetting to inscribe my name legibly on the most conveniently situated locker in the midshipmen's berth, after which I watched the operation of shipping and stowing her ballast. There was not much of interest or instruction in this part of the work, but when, on the following day, I witnessed the execution of the apparently impossible task of getting the tops aloft and over ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood
... minutes, anyhow," announced he. "If it does shoot ahead some, it don't keep me reckonin' in fractions like yours does. I'd see myself in Davie Jones's locker 'fore I'd go addin' three-quarter minutes ...
— Flood Tide • Sara Ware Bassett


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