English
airlocked
Airlocked comes from English airlock ‘to stop suddenly’.
- English1500–presentairlock‘to stop suddenly’
- Englishearliest quotation 2014airlocked
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- English1500–presentairlock‘to stop suddenly’
- Englishearliest quotation 2014airlocked
Earliest quotation: 2014, E. Hoffmann Price, Operation Longlife: “While Flora and Doc waited their turn through the…”
The story
Share (2005) suggests that the adjective comes from the past participle of the verb airlock (‘to stop suddenly’), which Macaffee (1996) says is “from the cut-out in a diesel engine if air enters the fuel system”.
Every English word from English airlock
Today it means
adj Equipped with an airlock.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English airlock / airlocked