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Meanings of the big key in English

British police battering ram.

Usage of the big key in English
1
That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse.
Les Misérables
2
Bastian put the big key in the lock from inside and turned it.
The Neverending Story
3
He slid the bolt and slowly turned the big key in the lock.
The Neverending Story
4
Show me, so I sha'n't get cracks over my head with the big key.
Step by Step; Or, Tidy's Way to Freedom
5
Sylvia grasped the big key and turned it slowly.
A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter
6
That was the big key for me, said Johnson.
Reuters
7
Now comes the big key to our puzzle.
BBC
8
Just then he saw the other calmly turn the big key and take it out of the door.
Barbara Blomberg — Volume 05
9
Upstairs again I open the lock with the big key, and gratefully enter the cool of the old house.
Bangkok 8
10
That's the big key.
Reuters
11
She locked the door on the outside, and hid the big key on the ledge of the manger in the shippon.
Women of the Country
12
But, when the big key was fitted into the lock and the lock turned, he showed his first signs of interest.
Bull Hunter
13
He cut the fuse to two minutes' length, and carried the box back among the big key logs that held the dam.
The Junior Classics, Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism
14
Brockett guessed the order he had wished to give, and the big key slid around in the old-fashioned lock of the jury-room door.
The Just and the Unjust
15
She had seen O'Reilly take the big key from a table, as they went by, slipping it into the pocket of his dinner jacket.
The Lion's Mouse
16
I am told that the big key was not in the lock, and that the bolt at the bottom of the door was not drawn.
The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange