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Sneck   Listen
verb
Sneck  v. t.  To fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door. (Scot. & Prov. Eng.)
Sneck up, be silent; shut up; hold your peace.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sneck" Quotes from Famous Books



... wi' oor faces to the door o' the room, an' auntie was noddin' a wee, for she was turnin' gey an' auld, but I was as wide waukin' an ony baudrins by a moose-hole, whan suddent there came a kin' o' a dirlin' at the sneck,'at sent the verra sowl o' me up intil the garret o' my heid; an' afore I had time to ken hoo sair frichtit I was, the door begud to open; an', glower as I wad, no believin' my ain e'en, open that ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald

... held no parlance with the feeding friar, but going straight up the walk to the door of a lodging, to the which this was the parterre and garden, he laid his hand on the sneck, and opening it, bade my grandfather ...
— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt

... chosen the tailor's house as his home on account of any comforts it might be expected to afford him. He had his own reasons for not quitting Wythburn after he had received his very unequivocal "sneck posset." "Better a wee bush," he would say, "than na bield". Shelter certainly the tailor's home afforded him; and that was all that he required for the present. Wilson had not been long in the tailor's cottage before Sim seemed to grow ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine



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