Preferred label

Triangle-shaped lock

Alternative label

Triangle lock         

Scope note

A lock fashioned to resemble a triangle. The tapered triangle-shaped lock is optimized to pass through a slit.         

Parent concept

Lock        

uh-linked-data/concept/309        

Related concept                              

Locking mechanism        

uh-linked-data/concept/319

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/558