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Definition of Door latch
1. Noun. Spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Door Latch
Literary usage of Door latch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Car-builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith (1906)
"A ball attached to the end of the spindle of a door latch to ... A door latch is
often made in combination with a lock, having a separate bolt and key to ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"Door-latch and tinkling staples ring ; — At length a whispering voice. ' Awake,
awake, arise, my love t How, Helen, dost thou fare ? ..."
3. Car Builders' Cyclopedia of American Practice by American Railway Association, Master Car Builders' Association, Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads (1881)
"A ball attached to the end of a spindle of a door-latch to take hold of in ...
A door-latch usually consists of a spring-bolt, held in a suitable metal case ..."
4. Car Builders' Cyclopedia of American Practice by American Railway Association, Master Car Builders' Association, Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads (1903)
"A ball attached to the end of the spindle of a door latch to take hold of in ...
A door latch is often made in combination with a lock, having a separate ..."
5. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1872)
"After this there was a sound as of a great iron chain falling on the outside of
the door, and then, in infernal accordance, door- latch, hinges, warming-pan ..."
6. The American in Egypt: With Rambles Through Arabia Petra︠e︡a and the Holy by James Ewing Cooley (1843)
"Hot Mixture," and Hunt for the Door-latch. HAVING completed all the necessary
arrangements for the commencement of our excursion up the Nile; and having, ..."
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