A bolt or bar, as of a door.

esp. A stake or rod of iron or wood used to fasten a gate, door, hatch, etc.

A beam or bar of wood or iron.

A bar or bolt used to secure a door, window, etc., when closed. Now dialect.

A means of closing or fastening; a bar or bolt; a book-clasp.

A device for fastening or securing a door, window, etc.; a bolt, bar, latch, etc. Obsolete. Chiefly Scottish in later use.

? a bar to which a staple is fixed.

A bolt or bar for securing a door, etc. (Cf. shoot, v. 13) Obsolete.

Something which closes fast, a bar, shutter. Usually plural. Also, a junction, a place where two things come together.

Something which shuts off or closes up. A locking-bar or bolt. Obsolete.

A bar of wood used to fasten a gate or door. Obsolete. (Cf. spar, v.1)

A crossbar for a door or window on the outside.

A bolt. Obsolete. rare.

Originally North American. A bar in a fence which may be pulled out of place or removed to allow passage. Now rare.

an inside bolt used to secure a door at night.

A bolt constructed so as to drop into a socket.

an iron rod serving to keep one leaf of a folding door in position.

(a) a bar, or each of a number of bars, fixed over a window, chiefly to prevent occupants from falling out or intruders from gaining access; also…

one of the spars of a heck: see also quot. 1876 heck-stake n. at compounds 1.

a bolt made to slide into a barrel-shaped socket.

(see quots.).

Designating devices, fittings, etc., designed to be operated or activated in the event of an emergency, as panic bar, panic bolt, etc. See also panic…