Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A latch-key.
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Examples
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I thought, however, that I had in my pocket my check-key, with which I quietly opened the door and groped my way into the sitting-room, but, finding no one there, I concluded they had gone to bed.
A girl's life in Virginia before the war, Letitia M Burwell 1895
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