Definitions
1.verbTo close or lock as if with a latch.
2.verbTo catch; lay hold of.
3.verbTo smear; to anoint.
4.nounA loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail.
5.nounThe situation where one speaker's utterance immediately follows another speaker's utterance, without pause or overlap.
6.adjectiveOf something that latches.