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Definition of Yale in English: Yalenoun jeɪljeɪl trademark often as modifier A type of lock with a latch bolt and a flat key with a serrated edge. Example sentencesExamples - 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.’
Origin Mid 19th century: named after Linus Yale Jr (1821–68), the American locksmith who invented the mechanism it uses. Rhymes ail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, bewail, brail, Braille, chain mail, countervail, curtail, dale, downscale, drail, dwale, entail, exhale, fail, faille, flail, frail, Gael, Gail, gale, Grail, grisaille, hail, hale, impale, jail, kale, mail, male, webmail, nonpareil, outsail, pail, pale, quail, rail, sail, sale, sangrail, scale, shale, snail, stale, swale, tail, tale, they'll, trail, upscale, vail, vale, veil, surveil, wail, wale, whale Definition of Yale in US English: Yale(also Yale lock) nounjeɪlyāl trademark often as modifier A type of lock with a latch bolt and a flat key with a serrated edge. Example sentencesExamples - And he said, ‘My front door is bolted with three bolts and a Yale lock.’
- The front door, on a Yale lock, clicked shut behind them, and they stood together, hunched up, in the recessed doorway.
- 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.
- ‘Loids’: pieces of celluloid used to force back the latch of a Yale type lock
Origin Mid 19th century: named after Linus Yale Jr (1821–68), the American locksmith who invented the mechanism it uses. |