Definition of latch

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Latch (v. t.) To smear; to anoint.

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Latch :: Latch (n.) That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.
Latchkey :: Latchkey (n.) A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch..
Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch..
Slatch :: Slatch (n.) An interval of fair weather.
Deadlock :: Deadlock (n.) A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward..
Lasket :: Lasket (n.) latching.
Latchstring :: Latchstring (n.) A string for raising the latch of a door by a person outside. It is fastened to the latch and passed through a hole above it in the door.
Latch :: Latch (n.) To catch so as to hold.
Trip :: Trip (v. t.) To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent..
Latch :: Latch (n.) A movable piece which holds anything in place by entering a notch or cavity; specifically, the catch which holds a door or gate when closed, though it be not bolted..
Deadlatch :: Deadlatch (n.) A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key..
Latch :: Latch (n.) A latching.
Throatband :: Throatband (n.) Same as Throatlatch.
Unlatching :: Unlatching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Unlatc.
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch..
Latchet :: Latchet (n.) The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring.
Unlatched :: Unlatched (imp. & p. p.) of Unlatc.
Unlatch :: Unlatch (v. i.) To open or loose by lifting the latch; as, to unlatch a door..
#NAME? :: -et () A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet..
Latched :: Latched (imp. & p. p.) of Latc.
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