lock-work

Updated: May 15, 2025

"Well, the ditch will be about fifty miles long, and, roughly speaking, the work is in three parts the dredging and harbor-building at sea-level on each end of the Canal, the lock-work, and the excavations on the upper levels. That dam you saw building at Gatun will form a lake about thirty miles long quite a fish-pond, eh?

Rex Ellingwood Beach - The Ne'er-Do-Well

"As you were so long on your errand, he gave up his lock-work, and has gone off to the pit. He said he had never known you loiter so." "I did not loiter at all," returned the maiden, indignantly; "if it had not been for the fog, I should have been home an hour ago; but one can't walk through wool as if it were air. You had the fog here yourselves, hadn't ye?"

James Payn - Bred in the Bone