Chubb
/tʃʌb
/noun trademark
A lock with a device for fixing the bolt immovably to prevent it from being picked.With this kind of success, Chubb went on to become the benchmark in mass-produced locks for 150 years....
- ‘The closest thing we have to security is a Chubb sticker on the door,’ said one student.
- There was no sign of forced entry and it is believed that the front door only had one Chubb lock on it.
Origin
Mid 19th century: named after Charles Chubb (1773–1845), the London locksmith who invented it.
Rhymes
- necessary house
- necessitarian
- necessitarianism
- necessitate
- necessitation
- necessitative
- necessitous
- necessitousness
- necessitude
- necessity
- necessity is the mother of invention
- necessity operator
- neche
- necher
- Nechilli
- Nechjilli
- reapprove
- reap-reeve
- reap the harvest (or fruits) of
- reap-time
- rear
- rear admiral
- rear arch
- rear commodore
- rear crew