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Kelvin Replaces A Student In Local 9 Crossword Clue

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noun

• a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed

• a strand or cluster of hair

• a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun

• enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it

• a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key

• any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured

verb

• fasten with a lock

• keep engaged

• become rigid or immoveable

• hold in a locking position

• become engaged or intermeshed with one another

• hold fast (in a certain state)

• place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

• pass by means through a lock in a waterway

• build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

27%9 Has a surface temperature of about 3,900 Kelvin
noun

• the brightest star in Taurus

27%7 Temperature scale where one degree equals one kelvin
noun

• Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744)

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