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Latchstring   Listen
noun
Latchstring  n.  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.)






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"Latchstring" Quotes from Famous Books



... season, and he was amazed to find how many human beings burrowed in and hibernated during the storm-bound months. Elsewhere, the skulking traveler received a chary welcome, but in the silent fastness of the hills latchstring and hearthstone and tobacco store were for genial sharing. In almost any one of these log shelters that he chanced upon he might have settled himself in content and found an indefinite welcome, but the urge to be up and on sent him forward ...
— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie



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