man lock

noun

an air lock serving as a decompression chamber for workers.

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How to use man lock in a sentence

I saw the man lock the gate again, and he looked round him like a man afraid of being spied upon.
The Mystery of Lincoln's Inn | Robert Machray
Side by side, on the level of the lower or working platform of the tunnel, were the man lock and the muck lock.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 | B. H. M. Hewett

British Dictionary definitions for man lock

man lock

noun

civil engineering an airlock that allows workmen to pass in and out of spaces with differing air pressures, esp one providing access to and from a tunnel, shaft, or caisson in which the air is compressed

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