A lock which has no spring catch. Metaphorically, a state of things so entangled that there seems to be no practical solution.
“Things are at a dead-lock.”—The Times.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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