lock staple
noun
A (typically U-shaped) metal bar over which a hasp can be fitted and secured with a padlock, or into which a bolt is slid.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in Abel Boyer (?1667–1729), lexicographer and journalist.
- Steadicam
- steadier
- steadily
- steadiness
- steading
- steady
- steady-going
- steady on!
- steady state
- point load
- point-maker
- point man
- point mass
- point mutation
- point-net
- point number
- point of contact
- point of departure
- point of honour
- point of inflection
- point of order
- point of osculinflection
- point of sailing
- point of sale
- point of view