Chapter Liverpool to Lockman of L by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Lochiel (2 syl.) of Thomas Campbell is Sir Evan Cameron, lord of Lochiel, surnamed The Black, and The Ulysses of the Highlands. His grandson Donald was called The Gentle Lochiel. Lochiel is the title of the head of the clan Cameron.

“And Cameron, in the shock of steel,
Die like the offspring of Lochiel.”
Sir W. Scott: The Field of Waterloo.

Lochinvar being in love with a lady at Netherby Hall, persuaded her to dance one last dance. She was condemned to marry a “laggard in love and a dastard in war,” but her young chevalier swung her into his saddle and made off with her, before the “bridegroom” and his servants could recover from their astonishment. (Sir Walter Scott: Marmion.)

Lock, Stock, and Barrel The whole of anything. The lock, stock, and barrel of a gun is the complete instrument.

“The property of the Church of England, lock, stock, and barrel, is claimed by the Liberationists.”- Newspaper paragraph; 1885.

Lock the Stable Door Lock the stable door when the steed is stolen. To take “precautions” when the mischief is done.

Lockhart When the good Lord James, on his way to the Holy Land with the heart of King Robert Bruce, was slain in Spain fighting against the Moors, Sir Simon Locard, of Lee, was commissioned to carry back to Scotland the heart, which was interred in Melrose Abbey. In consequence thereof he changed his name to Lock-heart, and adopted the device of a heart within a fetterlock, with this motto: “Corda serrata pando” (Locked hearts I open). Of course, this is romance. Lockhart is Teutonic, “Strong Beguiler.”

“For this reason men changed Sir Simon's name from Lockhard to Lockheart, and all who are descended from Sir Simon are called Lockhart to this day.”- Sir Walter Scott: Tales of a Grandfather, xi.

Lockit The jailer in Gay's Beggar's Opera.

Lockitt's A fashionable coffee-house in the reign of Charles II.

Lockman An executioner; so called because one of his dues was a lock (or ladleful) of meal from every caskful exposed for sale in the market. In the Isle of Man the under-sheriff is so called.