locking spring
noun
A spring that keeps closed something that can be opened by a catch, especially the cover of a watch.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in The London Gazette.
- in essence
- inessential
- inestimable
- inestimably
- in every sense of the word
- in evidence
- inevitability
- inevitable
- inevitably
- inexact
- inexactitude
- assignable
- assignation
- assignee
- assigner
- assignment
- assignor
- (as) silent as the grave
- (as) silent (or quiet) as the grave
- assimilable
- assimilate
- assimilation
- assimilationist
- assimilative
- assimilativeness