LOCKSMITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does locksmith mean? 

• LOCKSMITH (noun)
  The noun LOCKSMITH has 1 sense:

1. someone who makes or repairs locks

  Familiarity information: LOCKSMITH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOCKSMITH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who makes or repairs locks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("locksmith" is a kind of...):

smith (someone who works at something specified)

 Context examples 

The door had eventually to be opened by a locksmith from Aldershot.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I should get a respectable locksmith, and set him to work to pick the lock for me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The butler was awaiting my arrival; he had received by the same post as mine a registered letter of instruction, and had sent at once for a locksmith and a carpenter.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Just before we reached Fenchurch Street Lord Godalming said to me:—Quincey and I will find a locksmith.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The door was very strong, the lock excellent; the carpenter avowed he would have great trouble and have to do much damage, if force were to be used; and the locksmith was near despair.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

My title will make it all right with the locksmith, and with any policeman that may come along.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)