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FO'RELOCK, n.
1. The lock or hair that grows from the forepart of the head.
Take time by the forelock.
2. In sea language, a little flat pointed wedge of iron, used at the end of a bolt, to retain it firmly in its place.

forelock appears in definitions for these words:
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