Definition of Latchets

1. Noun. (plural of latchet) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Latchets

1. latchet [n] - See also: latchet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Latchets

latanier
latanier palm
latanoprost
latch
latch-key
latch-key child
latch-key children
latch key
latch on
latch onto
latched
latched on
latches
latches on
latchet
latchets (current term)
latching
latching on
latchings
latchkey
latchkey child
latchkey children
latchkey kid
latchkey kids
latchkeys
latchstring
latchstrings
late(a)
late-bound

Literary usage of Latchets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"... fastened with latchets; any coarse shoe. My heart-blood is nigh well from I feel, ... latchets ..."

2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"Two latchets are laid upon the faddle, which hang down on both fides of the ... ufe to drain the latchets, and to tie things hard. ..."

3. The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873)
"For instance, in the one before us, to unloose the latchets of his shoes brings me into contact ... True, it is but the loosing of shoe- latchets, but then, ..."

4. Ulster Journal of Archaeology (1903)
"The theory now in the field is that they were latchets or fasteners, ... It has been suggested that Serpentine latchets would be a more appropriate ..."

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