sidelock

• side-lock

From side +‎ lock.

sidelock (plural sidelocks)

1. A lock of hair worn at the side of the head.
   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)

     Its male residents dress like crows: heavy black suits, black Borsalino hats, the old grandfathers hugely whiskered and the boys in peot, the curled sidelocks of the pious.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 558:

     observation of the Sabbath (rather than the décadi) and the wearing of Jewish side-locks and beards were regarded as ‘uncivic’ offences.

   Hyponyms: payess, payot

2. (firearms) The design of a gun that has the lockwork mounted to the inside of a plate; compare boxlock.

• sideburn
• sidecurl

• lockside