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Locked vs Nocked - What's the difference?

locked | nocked |

As verbs the difference between locked and nocked

is that locked is (lock) while nocked is (nock).

As an adjective locked

is of a door, etc, that has been locked (with a key).

locked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lock)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a door, etc, that has been locked (with a key).
  • (Dublin) Very drunk.A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English, Terence Patrick Dolan , p.142.

    • nocked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nock)

    • Anagrams

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    nock

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Either of the two grooves in a bow that hold the bowstring.
  • The notch at the rear of an arrow that fits on the bowstring.
  • * Chapman
    • He took his arrow by the nock .
  • (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or trysail.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fit an arrow against the bowstring of a bow or crossbow.
  • To cut a nock in (usually in an arrow's base or the tips of a bow).

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