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rim lock

noun

rim lock

noun
1

A lock and plate fixed to the surface of a door rather than morticed within the door.

  • The socket of the rim-lock tore off to one good heft of the shoulder, and we were in.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 82:

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