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Deadlatch
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Deadlatch'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/d/deadlatch.html. 1828.