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Latch

/lˈætʃ/
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(verb) To close or lock as if with a latch.

Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up.
The door is on the latch.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She lifted the metal ____ and opened the heavy wooden door to reveal the beautiful garden that lay behind it.

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