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
My old porter will open all the lockfast places for him.
From Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
For it seems he had observed the place where Kalamake kept his treasure, which was a lockfast desk against the parlour wall, under the print of Kamehameha the Fifth, and a photograph of Queen Victoria with her crown; and it seems again that, no later than the night before, he found occasion to look in, and behold! the bag lay there empty.
From Project Gutenberg
There was a shelf of books besides, and a family Bible in the midst of the table, and the lockfast writing-desk against the wall; so that anyone could see it was the house of a man of substance.
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