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• n  a detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut
• v  fasten with a padlock

• He got outside accomplices to smuggle him a padlock in the Law Courts, went to the toilet with two guards.
• Sentence: a padlock on Al Misri, ten years in prison for Mahmoud, tried in absentia, a suspended 15-year sentence for his brother, plus confiscation of more than $1,000,000 of .
• After Republican Newt Gingrich announced his plan to sell one of five House office buildings, jealous Clinton aides one-upped the Republican leader with a plan to padlock an entire .

News & Articles

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• Padlock Ranch gets Wyoming conservation award
  The Padlock Ranch in northern Wyoming has won the 2013 Leopold Conservation Award.
  June 11, 2013 - KGWN-TV Cheyenne
• Lock Your Lovegate in downtown Fayetteville symbolizes lasting love
  Love is on display in front of a brick wall on Franklin Street in downtown Fayetteville. The love comes in the form of padlocks inscribed with names and initials. They're affixed to a wrought iron gate outside White Trash and Colorful Accessories gift shop.
  June 10, 2013 - The Fayetteville Observer

Quotes

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• Ernie Els in USA Today
  Don't start putting a padlock around me because that's not going to work,Els said at the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth.
• Stephen Mulhern in stv.tv
  Speaking on This Morning, Mulhern explained: "This guy is phenomenal. He is my first prediction to go through to the live shows. There is an effect that he does where he takes a borrowed ring, he'll put it on a padlock, close the padlock, and...
• Bob Parsons in WebHosting.Info
  An email is like a postcard; anyone can read it unless it's in a sealed envelope,said Bob Parsons, Founder and President of GoDaddy.com. "Go Daddy's web-based email not only provides an envelope, but it also adds a chain and padlock, in...