The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Lock

Of the wheels; to jam, either accidentally in turning, or intentionally by a skid (q.v.) or hook and chain attached to the felly.

A vehicle which can be turned round sharply, like an omnibus or brougham, does not lock; but if an attempt be made to turn a coach in a narrow road it locks, i.e., the wheels catch the body.

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