spring lock
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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They should agree to meet somewhere, probably next spring, lock the doors, and not go home until they have signed a document, however long it may take.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he whirled and strode toward his office door, but the spring lock had snapped, queering his exit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he saw that it was a spring lock, and that, with grim, characteristic humour, Uncle Ebeneezer had placed the key inside the box.
From At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern by Reed, Myrtle
Investigating through one of the oblong loopholes, he saw that the door was fastened with a spring lock which could be opened without a key from inside.
From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel
He drew back the spring lock, therefore, and the next moment stood face to face with the irate Mr Perkins.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
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