spring-lock

Ostensibly, this was because the bottle-opener versions had the look of the big ole spring-lock ornate keys used to open church doors.

Archive 2009-03-01 Steve Perry 2009

The spring-lock has closed upon us, and we cannot be liberated saving from the outside. —

Anne of Geierstein 2008

He had fled to this place of concealment, forgetting the key of the spring-lock; and being barred from escape by the means he had used for preservation of that gold, for which he had sold his salvation, he had there perished miserably.

Kenilworth 2004

Then the lift shot down again, and even as she turned the wind of its descent puffed up and blew to the spring-lock door of the rooms with a click only a little more loud than the leap of her terrified heart.

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

"And you might lend me that bunch of spring-lock keys."

Men of Affairs Roland Pertwee

Says I, ` 'Tis a spring-lock; pull it to, and it will be fast. '

She Stands Accused 1935

She also pointed out that, since the bolt of the spring-lock of the outer door to Mrs Duncomb's rooms had been engaged when they arrived, the miscreants could not have used that exit.

She Stands Accused 1935

"The fact that I found a Yale spring-lock the other day," Frank answered quietly.

Angel Island Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

To save me, I can't understand how that gold got where it was, for the cashier's cage is made of wire and the door has a spring-lock.

The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

It was a wall mill equipped with a glass-front metal hopper and employing a ratchet spring-lock nut and double-action grinders.

All About Coffee 1909