Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Genteel. jen-tÄlâ², adj. well-bred: graceful in manners or in form: fashionable.âadj. Genteelâ²ish, somewhat genteel.âadv. Genteelâ²ly.ân. Genteelâ²ness (same as Gentility).âThe genteel, the manners and usages of genteel or well-bred society.
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word lock and load. Wiktionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: A slang military command to prepare weapons for battle. No US weapon includes lock and load as one of the commands related to that weapon, nor is it a recognized range command.
A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways. The distinguishing feature of a lock is a fixed chamber in which the water level can be varied; whereas in a caisson lock, a boat lift, or on a canal inclined plane, it is the chamber itself that rises and falls. Locks are used to make a river more easily navigable, or to allow a canal to cross land that is not level. Later canals used mo