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A latching.

The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring.

the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail; -- called also latch and lasket. [Usually in pl.]

A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch.

A string for raising the latch of a door by a person outside. It is fastened to the latch and passed through a hole above it in the door. To find the latchstring out, to meet with hospitality; to be welcome. (Intrusion is prevented by drawing in the latchstring.) [Colloq. U.S.]

A soft or sloppy lump or mass; as, to throw a clatch of mud.

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. Knight.

A housebreaker or thief. [Obs.] Old Play (1631).

Among the Kwakiutl, Chimmesyan, and other Indians of the northwestern coast of North America, a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen, often, formerly, to his own impoverishment. Feasting, dancing, and public ceremonies accompany it.

The period of a transitory breeze.

A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.

To open or loose by lifting the latch; as, to unlatch a door.

The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.

mething. [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs. Ben Jonson. When merry milkmaids click the latch. Tennyson.

A latch key. [Eng.] Chaucer.

To give out a slight, sharp, thinkling sound. "The clinking latch." Tennyson.

An ill-natured person. [Colloq.] "Crosspatch, draw the latch." Mother Goose.

A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward.

A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet.

which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch. Knight.