Definition of "padlocked" [padlocked]

• Simple past tense and past participle of padlock. (verb)

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• "He recalled the padlocked barracks, the emptyness, the air of desertion."
• "Their mouths can be padlocked, which is an important matter."
• "The boat's crew boss also he had in, to give assurance, as was the custom nightly, that the whale-boats were hauled up and padlocked."