latch-pin

Updated: June 5, 2025

Well, my wife was just lightin' a pig-tail tho' light enough and to spare there was in the lift already when who should come clatterin' at the latch-pin in the blow o' thunder and wind but Philip, poor lad, himself; and an ill hour for him it was.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3