double-locking

As a result, people make extensive efforts to avoid being victimized: everything from double-locking doors to moving to the suburbs.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Benefits and costs: crime, crime avoidance, crime control 2009

I turned the key in the lock, and then again, double-locking the door.

Carnacki, the Ghost Finder 2007

Indeed, there have been reports of Ministerial aides having to negotiate a series of tasks to escape rooms - these involve negotiating a path across the roof of the Crystal Dome when they are befuddled by ingenious double-locking doors.

Archive 2005-09-01 Kerron Cross 2005

After a month of heightened anxiety and double-locking of doors, "A Disturbed Jennifer" materialized as a rock group composed of four green-haired students from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994

After a month of heightened anxiety and double-locking of doors, "A Disturbed Jennifer" materialized as a rock group composed of four green-haired students from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994

Di wrenched the door open and closed it quickly behind her, double-locking it and throwing the security bolt.

Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989

It was not quite as simple as we had first thought because the double-locking action of the locks confused us.

Chapter 7 - First Approaches 1987

For that same reason, fear, Colodny managed to turn the bolt on Dancer's side, and Meeker did the same on his side of the door, double-locking it.

Hoodwink Pronzini, Bill 1981

Following them, he quickly locked each in turn to his staple in the wall and went out, bolting and double-locking the door behind him.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

Lofty hills, deep ravines with jagged sides, forbidding cañons, all but impassable streams, rock-bound and brush-choked, -- up and down, through or over all these obstacles they had now to force a passage, cutting here, digging there; now double-locking the wheels of their wagons to prevent their crashing down some steep incline; now putting five teams to one load to haul it up the rock-strewn side of some water-way.

The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Harry Leon Wilson 1903