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- Don and Sherrie Frieden of Muscatine, Iowa


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Strike

A metal part with a hole recess for recieving a door latch, also with a curved or ramped face so a spring-loaded latch contacts it when closing. Strikes are fit into mortises in door jambs or mullions, and screw-fastened.

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