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night latch

a door latch with a bolt opened from the outside by a key, and from the inside by a knob

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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