Why are states allowed to be in the gambling business and lock out the private sector?
No ordinary person can shut his door to lock out the rest of the world.
Of my methods you may not learn much, for to those beyond the pale we lock out secrets.
It required something heavier than that iron door, to lock out the sympathies of two hearts that had grown old in affection.
Words were wasted breath; the time to strike or to lock out your employees was when you were ready and your opponent was not.
The boys heard the door closed and locked, and the sound seemed to lock out another hope for them.
It involves no dispute of the right to strike or lock out, nor of the closed or open shop.
The youth now proposed to use this dagger as a saw to cut the lock out from the wooden door.
"means of fastening," Old English loc "bolt, fastening; barrier, enclosure," from Proto-Germanic *lukan (cf. Old Norse lok "fastening, lock," Gothic usluks "opening," Old High German loh "dungeon," German Loch "opening, hole," Dutch luik "shutter, trapdoor"). "The great diversity of meaning in the Teut. words seems to indicate two or more independent but formally identical substantival formations from the root."
The Old English sense "barrier, enclosure" led to the specific meaning "barrier on a river" (c.1300), and the more specific sense "gate and sluice system on a water channel used as a means of raising and lowering boats" (1570s). Wrestling sense is from c.1600. Phrase under lock and key attested from early 14c.
"tress of hair," Old English locc "lock of hair, curl," from Proto-Germanic *lukkoz (cf. Old Norse lokkr, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch lok, Old High German loc, German Locke "lock of hair"), from PIE *lugnos-, perhaps related to Greek lygos "pliant twig, withe," Lithuanian lugnas "flexible."
"to fasten with a lock," c.1300, from Old English lucan "to lock, to close" (class II strong verb; past tense leac, past participle locen), from the same root as lock (n.1). Cognate with Old Frisian luka "to close," Old Saxon lukan, Old High German luhhan, Old Norse luka, Gothic galukan. Meaning "to embrace closely" is from 1610s. Related: Locked; locking. Slang lock horns "fight" is from 1839.