spring lock

British  

noun

1. a type of lock having a spring-loaded bolt, a key being required only to unlock it

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Example Sentences

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Visions of crimes hidden in the attic, memory of her own incarceration there when the trap door, as she now regarded the door with the spring lock snapped shut, filtered through her excited brain, and when she remembered how she had almost died up there, and how it might have been years before her skeleton would have been discovered, just as so many others had fared on secret attic trips, it did seem to Nora that she should arise at once and immediately start her investigations.

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