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- noun Plural form of
latching .
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Examples
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Elizabeth watched him try again and again to undo the latchings.
Gentle Warrior Garwood, Julie 1985
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Aunt Sharley, after making the rounds of the house to see to door boltings and window latchings, had hobbled upstairs to her own sleeping quarters over the kitchen wing, and in the elder sister's room, with the lights turned low, the two of them sat in their nightgowns on the side of Emmy Lou's bed and tried the case of Spinster Charlotte Helm, coloured, in the scales of their own youthful judgments.
From Place to Place 1910
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