Lockport

[ lok-pawrt, -pohrt ]

/ ˈlɒkˌpɔrt, -ˌpoʊrt /

a city in W New York, on the New York State Barge Canal.

QUIZZES

This windfall of words will make you rich with knowledge. Mine your memory on the words from July 27 to August 2!

Question 1 of 7

What does "scattergood" mean?

The head constable then asked me 'if I knew any person in Lockport.'
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918|Various
Has the gentleman from Lockport come with the score of a comic opera under his arm, and two thousand dollars in his pocket?
Jersey Street and Jersey Lane|H. C. Bunner
I am obliged to go to Albany to-night on business, and then hurry back to the Lockport circuit.
Letters and Literary Memorials of Samuel J. Tilden, v. 1|Samuel J. Tilden
The run to Lockport occupied only a short time, and then she went to her friend's house.
Geoffrey Hampstead|Thomas Stinson Jarvis

Each father and mother was distracted when news of the flooding of Lockport came.
Hester's Counterpart|Jean K. Baird