Type of locks in frame of doors protecting study

Usage examples of dreads.

He dreads the exposure he courts--or has to combat with all his powers.

The heart within my sorrowful breast you dreads, And loves so sore, that ye be, verily, The mistress of my wit, and nothing I.

It is one of the Lesbian dreads, I suppose: some wretched man may come sneaking into Paradise, with troubling insinuation.