padlock
Example Sentences
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Instead of a doorknob, it has a large metal hasp with a hefty padlock.
From Literature
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The court heard it was covered over with grilles but it is not padlocked shut.
From BBC
Plastic sheeting is taped across all the windows and there's a large padlock hanging on the door handle.
From BBC
The first and only response to that invitation was to ask him to put a padlock on the door to the storage room full of boxed documents.
Not necessarily a designer one, but a handbag with a strong sense of itself — an acid-green baguette bag, a wicker orb with a padlock, a cheetah-print apothecary satchel.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.