stock lock

noun

1. a lock that is enclosed in a wooden case

lock, stock, and barrel

1. The whole of anything: “Our new manager wants to reorganize the entire operation, lock, stock, and barrel.” The lock, stock, and barrel are the three parts of a rifle.

Idioms and Phrases

The entirety; all of something. For example, Jean moved out of the house, lock, stock, and barrel. This expression alludes to the three elements of a firearm—the lock or firing mechanism, the stock or handle, and the barrel or tube. [Early 1800s]

Example Sentences

I’d eat my rifle, stock, lock and barrel, afore I’d own to sich shooting.

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Don’t live to see me sold up, stock, lock, and barrel.

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“I have been told that our new friend, Professor Spink, has sold her out–stock, lock, and barrel.”

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Mr. Punch with the Brummagem boys will not quarrel, But all guns should be trustworthy, stock, lock and barrel; Be the game one is after an Arab or pheasant, The chance of a barrel that bursts is not pleasant.

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I do not believe I should save �100 by retaining Mrs. Redford, by the time she was raised, altered, and beautified, for, like the Highlandman's gun, she wants stock, lock, and barrel, to put her into repair.

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