spring lock

noun

1. a type of lock having a spring-loaded bolt, a key being required only to unlock it

Example Sentences

A second-round draft pick this spring, Lock spent three months on IR with a sprained right thumb before becoming the seventh starting quarterback in Denver since Peyton Manning’s retirement.

From Washington Times

A second-round draft pick this spring, Lock spent three months on IR with a sprained right thumb before becoming the seventh starting quarterback in Denver since Peyton Manning’s retirement.

From Seattle Times

He went down to it by a ladder, and fastened the door by a spring lock.

From Project Gutenberg

The result was as I had feared—a spring lock had fastened it.

From Project Gutenberg

She closed the door behind him; tried to bolt it; remembered that it secured itself by a spring lock which only a key could open from the hall; then, almost in a faint, fell into the wide arm-chair where she had sat when she sent von Klausen to the window.

From Project Gutenberg