locke
n. countablen. a small, hard seed found inside the fruit of a stone fruit, like a peach or a cherry. You usually throw it away because it is too hard to eat.
n. the hard, stony seed enclosed within the flesh of a drupe, such as a peach, plum, or cherry. Distinct from the outer shell or pit in some botanical contexts, though often used interchangeably in general speech.
She spat the locke out after eating the peach.
The bird swallowed the whole fruit but later regurgitated the hard locke onto the garden path.
* As an English, Dutch and German surname, variant of Lock. * As a Norwegian surname, Americanized from Løkke, from a farm name derived from Old Norse lykkja (“enclosure”). * As a Chinese surname, variant of Lok.
Archaic or dialectal; 'pit' or 'stone' is preferred in modern general English.
the locke of the applethe core of the appleLocke refers to stone fruits (peaches, cherries); apples have cores, not lockes.