springlock

As Madame de Carigliano pressed the secret springlock of the door she stopped, looking at Augustine with an inimitable gleam of shrewdness and grace.

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

As Madame de Carigliano pressed the secret springlock of the door she stopped, looking at Augustine with an inimitable gleam of shrewdness and grace.

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

So someone devises a box with heating coils and a thermostat attached to a springlock that retracts when enough heat has been applied.

Mirage Tiedemann, Mark W. 2000

There was another unpainted deal stairway and Grim led the way down, but I lingered to fasten the catch on the springlock, so that the door would open readily if we should need to retreat in a hurry.

Jimgrim Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1931

After we had waited a few minutes, J----- came racing down to the gate, laughing heartily, and said that Bob and he had been in the house, but had come out, shutting the door behind them; and as the door closed with a springlock, they could not get in again.

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

After we had waited a few minutes, J----- came racing down to the gate, laughing heartily, and said that Bob and he had been in the house, but had come out, shutting the door behind them; and as the door closed with a springlock, they could not get in again.

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Carigliano pressed the secret springlock of the door she stopped, looking at Augustine with an inimitable gleam of shrewdness and grace.

At the Sign of the Cat & Racket Honor�� de Balzac 1824

A springlock can shut of itself, but it cannot open without a key; so we can shut ourselves out from God, but we cannot open to him by repentance, till he opens our heart who has the key of David in his hand.

The Lord's Prayer 1692