night latch

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   doorlock operated by a knob on the inside and a key on the outside

   Broaderdoorlock

Questions about night latch

What does night latch mean?

night latch means "doorlock operated by a knob on the inside and a key on the outside".

Is night latch a common word?

night latch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.