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Latchkey

A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch.

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Key 76% connected

An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lo…

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Adoors unknown · 78% connection

At the door; of the door; as, out adoors.

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Advance verb · 78% connection

To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.

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Back adjective · 78% connection

Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.

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Behind adjective · 78% connection

On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a…

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Bobbin noun · 78% connection

The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.

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Bull verb · 78% connection

To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices…

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Click noun · 78% connection

The latch of a door.

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Deadlatch noun · 78% connection

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 b…

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Door noun · 78% connection

anything providing a means of access (or escape); "we closed the door to Haitian immigrants"; "education is the door to success"

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Drop noun · 78% connection

A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, t…

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Erect verb · 78% connection

To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, et…

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Hatch noun · 78% connection

A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.

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Heck noun · 78% connection

The bolt or latch of a door.

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Hoist verb · 78% connection

To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package o…

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Kakapo noun · 78% connection

A singular nocturnal parrot (Strigops habroptilus), native of New Zealand. It lives in holes during the day, but is active at night. I…

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Latchstring noun · 78% connection

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 do…

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Nightly adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the night, or to every night; happening or done by night, or every night; as, nightly shades; he kept nightly vigi…

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Ostiary noun · 78% connection

One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.

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