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1. bar, n.1 View full entry 1828
...In sense 1, as bar-lock, etc....
2. bent, n.2 View full entry 1674
...Technical uses, of various origin. Building, Carpentry, etc.: a section of a framework or framed building. (orig. U.S.)....
3. bit, n.1 View full entry 1644
...The part of a key, at right angles to the barrel or shank, which grips the levers of the lock....
4. bolt, n.1 View full entry
...An appliance for fastening a door, consisting of a cylindrical (or otherwise-shaped) piece of iron, etc., moving longitudinally through staples or guides on the door, so that its end can be shot...
5. bolt, n.1 View full entry 1463
...That part of a lock which springs out and enters the staple or ‘keeper’ made for its reception....
6. boul | bool, n. View full entry 1560
...esp. The curved or semicircular handle of a pail, tea-kettle, pint-stoup, etc.; the annular part of a key; the holes in scissors for the thumb and finger. bouls, ...
7. bow-ward in bow, n.1 View full entry 1678
...a nick in the end of the stem of a key where it joins the bow (see sense 11)....
8. box, n.2 View full entry 1686
...The case of a lock; also, the socket on a door-jamb which receives the bolt....
9. box-lock in box, n.2 View full entry 1731
10. box-staple in box, n.2 View full entry a1877
...the staple on a door-post into which the bolt of a lock is shot, when the staple is so shaped that it covers the end of the bolt....
11. Bramah, n. View full entry 1875
12. breech, n. View full entry 1678
...Occas. used of the lower or thicker end of various instruments, tools, etc.; e.g. the thick end or ‘tail’ of the bolt of a lock....
13. bridgeward, n. View full entry
...Locksmithing. The main ward of a key....
14. broach, n.1 View full entry 1753
...A general name for tapered boring-bits, or tools for enlarging or smoothing holes, generally of polygonal form with several cutting edges, sometimes round and smooth for burnishing, as in watchmaking; a similar...
15. check-lock in check-, comb. form View full entry 1850
...a small lock for closing the key-hole of a large lock, or otherwise securing a lock, bar, bolt, etc.;(see quot.); so check-locking....
16. Chubb, n. View full entry 1833
...In full Chubb's lock, Chubb-lock: a patent lock with tumblers and, in addition, a lever called a detector, which fixes the bolt immovably when one of the tumblers...
17. claw, n. View full entry c1000
...transf. A mechanical or other contrivance resembling a claw; e.g. a curved iron with sharpened extremity for grappling or tearing; the back part of a hammer head curved and cloven, or...
18. click, n.1 View full entry 1759
...the catch for a lock or bolt, a latch (cf. clicket)....
19. clicket, n. View full entry 1393
...The latch of a gate or door. Still dial....
20. clicket-lock in clicket, n. View full entry 1439
...a latch-lock....
