0 a small metal lock with a U-shaped bar --
1 to fasten something using a padlock: --
2 a movable lock with a U-shaped part that is pushed into another part to close and is usually opened with a key: --
One of the gates has a padlock on it.
In some places, nuclear materials are stored in no more than glass jars protected only by padlocks.
There were no means of escape such as had been certified by the authorities; the security door was padlocked, and the key was missing.
Horse riders are particularly affected by gates that are padlocked.
I know something about padlocking the safety valve on the boiler.
Five employees were trapped inside the storeroom in which they were working, behind windows which had iron bars that were padlocked.
Despite the padlocks and the blocking of the top, this is described as a merger.
Her husband, an alcoholic and a gambler, had put padlocks on the wheels of her chair.
Thus, a raspberry is a type of berry, a bullfinch a type of finch, a dormouse a type of mouse, a padlock a type of lock, etc.
