lockplate

“Hang it from the latch, right on top of the lockplate,” Count Sividian urged excitedly.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

He peered at the lockplate and saw the mark of the Cadiz Armory, which made this a Spanish army gun.

Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

She wheeled half right, her left hand bunching her dress up to her thighs as her left leg snapped up and out, the sole of her left foot hitting the lockplate, the door slamming open inward.

The Arsenal Ahern, Jerry 1988

Dung swallowed hard for the third time as they stopped before a door and the spaceman put out a hand to press against the lockplate, letting the door withdraw into the wall to give them entrance.

Flight in Yiktor Norton, Andre 1986

Cannon-mouth barrel, brass mountings and lockplate, fishtail butt.

A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Henry W. Shoemaker

Marks on lockplate illegible, but enough can be deciphered to show that it was made by H. Aston, of Middleton, Conn.

A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Henry W. Shoemaker

Virtually every dwelling and place of business was lost in the blaze, forming a vast subterranean layer of charred debris that has yielded such artifacts as a lockplate from an

The Shad Plank 2010

" He peered at the lockplate and saw the mark of the Cadiz Armoury, which made this a Spanish army gun.

Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992