spring lock
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A second-round draft pick this spring, Lock spent three months on IR with a sprained right thumb before becoming the seventh starting quarterback in Denver since Peyton Manning’s retirement.
From Seattle Times
He went down to it by a ladder, and fastened the door by a spring lock.
From Project Gutenberg
The result was as I had feared—a spring lock had fastened it.
From Project Gutenberg
She closed the door behind him; tried to bolt it; remembered that it secured itself by a spring lock which only a key could open from the hall; then, almost in a faint, fell into the wide arm-chair where she had sat when she sent von Klausen to the window.
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In French morocco and lidless French morocco case, with spring lock, £1 1s.
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