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Double-lock

Double-lock \Dou"ble-lock`\, v. t. To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.
--Tatler.

Usage examples of "double-lock".

An ebony-cased pianette occupied one corner,--and on a small side-table stood a heavily-made oaken chest, brass-bound and double-locked.

To this filth, to this heresy booming through the corridors of the apartment building where she is vying with twenty other Jewish women to be the patron saint of self-sacrifice, my mother has no choice but to throw the double-lock on our door.

She threw the rest of the arroz con pollo into the trash, then double-locked the service door off the kitchen.

A double-locked chromium steel and wire-reinforced glass door, opened on pneumatic seals by a pair of mud-eyed guards with pistols prominently displayed on their hips.

Once inside he double-locked the door and spent several tedious hours under a bright lamp altering his credit card again.

The ointment was now made and Smith carried off a suitable number of gallipots for their syphilitic patients: Stephen shut and double-locked the dispensary door (seamen were much given to dosing themselves) and hearing the main body of reefers leave their berth with a sound like that of a herd of mad cattle, he walked in.

He took a last proud look at his new apartment before double-locking the front door and then turning the mortise lock as well.

Angelina said as she double-locked the hall door, put on the safety chain and propped a chair under the handle.