Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any latch or door-bolt, controlled by a spring and having a beveled head which, when the door is closed, is pressed back by meeting the strike and is thrown out again when the door is shut: the common form of self-locking bolt.
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Examples
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Contrast it with this neat American lock, and notice again the bosses to receive the wear; notice also that the bolts are brass; the latch-bolt is, of course, reversible -- I never saw an American lock which was not.
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I could see nothing through the window slit, and lighting a pine fagot, shot back the latch-bolt and threw open the door.
Lords of the North 1903
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