Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A device for fastening the sash of a window so that it cannot be opened from the outside.
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Examples
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Then he repeated the operation on the inner pane, before reaching in delicately and disengaging the window-lock.
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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