rim lock

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noun

a lock nailed or screwed to one face of a door, gate, etc., as opposed to one built into its edge.

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Origin of rim lock

First recorded in 1835–45

Words nearby rim lock

rimester, rime suffisante, rimfire, Rimini, rim lighting, rim lock, rim man, rimmed, rimmed steel, Rimmer, rimose

How to use rim lock in a sentence

While the desk sergeant ran a background check, he was roughed up by another officer in the lock-up.
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“Now they will definitely lock Navalny in prison,” one of the women in the crowd said.
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He had, after all, already learned just how much trouble that could get him into—rim shot.
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Who knew that a competition where you clutch the hand of another man and lock eyes across a table could be this damn gay.
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In many ways, she seems a lock for the win, but her atheism puts her entire character in question.
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The place was used as a lock-up for some time after the incorporation, and the old irons were kept on show for years.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
I do not know—I do not dare to believe—that I shall live to hear that key grating in the lock.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
From this day, Ramona never knew an instant's peace or rest till she stood on the rim of the refuge valley, high on San Jacinto.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
The others kept on, climbed the short, steep bank, and passed from sight over its rim.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair