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unˈlatch, v.
[un-2 3.]
1. trans. To undo the latch or catch of (a door, etc.); to unfasten in this way.
1642H. More Song of Soul i. i. 60 Then stiller whispering winds dark visions unlatch. 1697Dryden æneis vi. 704 Mean time my worthy wife..The door unlatch'd. 1822Byron Werner iv. i. 434 Who..Unlatch'd the door of death for thee. 1873R. Broughton Nancy I. 54 Unlatching the gate in the fence. 1890Anthony's Photogr. Bull. III. 200 The bellows is closed up, it is now allowed to fall open, when unlatched, by a catch on the side and top.
b. intr. To become, or admit of being, thus unfastened.
1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. i. ii. 12 The gate of gold no more unlatches. 1875Blackmore A. Lorraine xviii, The gate at this end unlatches.
2. trans. To unlace (shoes). Cf. latchet 1 c.
1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur 253 Another unlatched Ben-Hur's Roman shoes. |