lockfast
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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His final conviction before he became a foster carer was theft from a lockfast place in 1978 - eight years before he began fostering.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
Besides what I have named, there was not another thing in that great, stone-vaulted, empty chamber but lockfast chests arranged along the wall and a corner-cupboard with a padlock.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Julian at length called to the female,—"Catherine, bestir thee, and fetch me presently that letter which I bade thee keep ready at hand in thy casket, having no sure lockfast place of my own."
From The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott
One day he produced my belt from a lockfast drawer.
From The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
And he opened a lockfast place, and took out a round-bellied bottle with a long neck; the glass of it was white like milk, with changing rainbow colours in the grain.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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