noun

• A type of lock with a latch bolt and a flat key with a serrated edge.

  as modifier ‘a Yale lock’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Their front door was fitted with a Yale lock, two bolts and a security chain.’
  • ‘The frame itself was nothing short of a battlefield to the indiscriminate slaughter of Yales and Stubbs.’
  • ‘The front door, on a Yale lock, clicked shut behind them, and they stood together, hunched up, in the recessed doorway.’
  • ‘‘Loids’: pieces of celluloid used to force back the latch of a Yale type lock’
  • ‘And he said, ‘My front door is bolted with three bolts and a Yale lock.’’