sidelock

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See also: side-lock

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Etymology

From side +‎ lock.

Noun

sidelock (plural sidelocks)

  1. A lock of hair worn at the side of the head.
    Hyponyms: payess, payot
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 558:
      observation of the Sabbath (rather than the décadi) and the wearing of Jewish side-locks and beards were regarded as ‘uncivic’ offences.
    • 2014 December, Paul Salopek, “Blessed. Cursed. Claimed.”, in National Geographic‎, archived from the original on 12 February 2015:
      Its male residents dress like crows: heavy black suits, black Borsalino hats, the old grandfathers hugely whiskered and the boys in peot, the curled sidelocks of the pious.
  2. (firearms) The design of a gun that has the lockwork mounted to the inside of a plate; compare boxlock.

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