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n. A fastening, as for a door or gate, typically consisting of a bar that fits into a notch or slot and is lifted from either side by a lever or string.

n. A spring lock, as for a door, that is opened from the outside by a key.

v. To close or lock with or as if with a latch.

verb-intransitive. To have or be closed with a latch.

verb-intransitive. To shut tightly so that the latch is engaged: a door too warped to latch.

idiom. on to To get hold of; obtain: latched on to a fortune in the fur trade.

n. A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.

n. A flip-flop electronic circuit

n. A latching.

n. A crossbow.

v. To close or lock as if with a latch

v. To smear; to anoint.

n. That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.

n. A movable piece which holds anything in place by entering a notch or cavity; specifically, the catch which holds a door or gate when closed, though it be not bolted.

n. A latching.

n. A crossbow.

v. To catch so as to hold.

v. To catch or fasten by means of a latch.

To seize; lay hold of; snatch; catch.

To take; snatch up or off.

To receive; obtain.

To hold; support; retain.

To close or fasten with a latch; as, to latch a gate.

To snatch: with at.

To light or fall.

To tarry; loiter; lag.

n. A device for catching or retaining something; a catch.

n. A kind of gravity-lock, or door fastening consisting of some form of pivoted bolt falling into and catching against a catch or stop. Latches are usually made with a lifter or lever for raising the bar from either side of the door. Some simple forms consist merely of a wooden baron the inside, which is raised by a string passed through a hole in the door, Door- and gate-latches are made in many forms, and are described by their names, rim-, night-, thumb-latches, etc.

n. Nautical, a small line like a loop, used to fasten a bonnet on the foot of a sail. Also latching.

n. The trigger of a crossbow; hence, the crossbow itself when it is of the kind discharged by a latch.

n. In a knitting-machine, same as fly, 3 .

To pour or drip (water); dribble.

To drip a liquid upon; moisten.

See leach.

n. A miry place.

n. A tanners' pit, sunk below the general level of the ground, in which ooze is prepared from tan-bark or other similar material by leaching it with water. A contraction of latch- or leach-pit.

n. spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key

n. catch for fastening a door or gate; a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove

v. fasten with a latch

"If the door opens inward the latch is the right way for the look to be on the outside"

latched    latches    latching   

lock    catch    fix    secure    fasten   

on the latch    deadlatch   

latched    latching    on the latch    latch onto    latch on to    latch on   

smear    anoint    lace    snare    latching    crossbow   

Rach    Thatch    Vlach    attach    batch    brach    catch    detach    dispatch    drach   

lever    hinge    bolt    lock    catch    trigger    pin    plunger    shutter    knob