1. A piece of hardware used for fastening; it screws into a nut.
2. The part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key; SYN. deadbolt.
3. A sudden abandonment (as from a political party).
4. A sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech.
5. Sifting cloth. + prikaži više

ETYM Contr. from coppice.
(Homonym: copes).
A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.

The act of fastening things together; SYN. attachment.

ETYM Old Eng. hasp, hesp, AS. haepse; akin to German haspe, häspe, Swed. and Dan. haspe, Icel. hespa.
A fastener for a door or lid; a hinged metal strap fits over a staple and is locked with a pin or padlock.

ETYM Old Eng. lacche, from lacchen to seize, As. laeccan.
(Irregular plural: latches).
1. A fastening for a door or gate: a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove.
2. A spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key.

ETYM Properly a diminutive from the same word as rack: cf. French rochet. Related to Ratch, Rack the instrument.
A toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction; SYN. rachet, ratch.

ETYM For older tricker, from Dutch trekker, from trekken to draw, pull. Related to Trick.
An act that sets in motion some course of events; SYN. induction, initiation.
An external stimulus that initiates one or more instrument functions.