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rim locks

rim locks is the plural of rim lock.

Meaning of rim lock

Noun

rim lock (plural rim locks)

  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

Questions about rim locks

What is rim locks the plural of?
Rim locks is the plural of rim lock.

Words near rim locks in the dictionary

  1. rim brake
  2. rim brakes
  3. rim job
  4. rim jobs
  5. rim lock
  6. rim locks
  7. rim out
  8. rim shot
  9. rim shots
  10. rim tape
  11. rim tapes

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