This allows the bar to be locked in a neutral (latch open) position, allowing the door to be freely opened from either side.

In the spring he took it back where he had found it, left it there in the cage with the door latched open.

The shutters of her bedchamber, swung and latched open, let in the raw thunder of the breakers churned up by strong winds.

The gate Little Nuts had destroyed was rehung now, as Omar had promised, latched open at the moment with the crack down the center intact.

The glazed sashes were already latched open.

When he investigated, he found the door latch open and the room unoccupied.

Every thirty feet or so there was a large steel door latched open.

Its doors slowed, then latched open.

He found the creature cowering in the cage, half starved and horribly dehydrated-with the door still latched open.