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
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 Island Nights' Entertainments by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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 Stevenson, Robert Louis
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
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 Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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