lock-plate

Upon this door, beside a pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed slanting.

Les Miserables 2008

Then—carefully inserting the key into the corresponding hole in the lock-plate of the little box—I opened the latter and slowly raised the lid.

Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

After removing three access plates, and sneezing intermittently the whole time from the hay and grass dust that rose every time he moved his boots, he found something that might work-more like an inside lock-plate shim with large screw holes at each end.

Fall of Angels Modesitt, L. E. 1996

Natalia stepped back, leveling the P-38 at the lock-plate on the side nearest the jamb, firing twice in rapid succession.

The Arsenal Ahern, Jerry 1988

Tom pressed his palm against the lock-plate, and the door swung open.

Gold in the Sky Alan Edward Nourse 1960

I have seen Enfield rifles of the manufacture of 1861 and 1862, with the stamp of the "Tower" on the lock-plate!

Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South William G. Stevenson

On the top of the barrel, near the breech, with an anchor; and, on the lock-plate, the letter P over the initials of the Inspector, thus:

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

Medart placed his hand against the door's lock-plate, keying it to his palm-print.

Zeta Exchange A Terran Empire story Ann Wilson

I have put in many an hour working on my gun with an old rag and powdered dirt, and a corncob, or pine stick, polishing the barrel, the bands, lock-plate, and trigger-guard, until they were fit to pass inspection.

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Leander Stillwell 1888

There is a sort of speckling on the barrels, and there is a conventional design on the lock-plate; conventional, indeed, in the most _blase_ sense of the word -- quite _blase_ and worn out, this scratch of intertwisted lines, not so much as a pheasant even engraved on the lock-plate; it is a mere killing machine, this gun, and there is no Art, thought or love of nature about it.

Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867