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deadlatches

deadlatches is the plural of deadlatch.

Meaning of deadlatch

Noun

deadlatch (plural deadlatches)

  1. A kind of latch whose bolt may be locked by a detent so that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key.

Questions about deadlatches

What is deadlatches the plural of?
Deadlatches is the plural of deadlatch.

Words near deadlatches in the dictionary

  1. deadjectivals
  2. deadland
  3. deadlands
  4. deadlatch
  5. deadlatched
  6. deadlatches
  7. deadleg
  8. deadlegged
  9. deadlegging
  10. deadlegs
  11. deadlier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deadlatches (page history and authors); deadlatch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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