Sneck

'sneck' of 'Brownie's' den and tried to lift it without noise. ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)

In the morning Beatrice was disturbed by the sharp sneck of the hall door. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Cyril Nutkin stepped forward and slipped one key into the dead bolt and a Yale key into the lock, murmured the incantation, "Hope she hasn't dropped the sneck," and turned the keys. ❋ Gardner, John (2002)

Their kisses just sound leyke the sneck ov a yeat; ❋ Unknown (2000)

Instead, he had carefully jammed the sneck of the study door so it would sit slightly ajar and had stationed himself in the disused alcove down the hall, listening for the steps of the four men as they passed. ❋ Hambly, Barbara (1988)

He put down the sneck with his thumb and pushed in the door and followed. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

Perhaps I might be able to discern somewhat through the aperture above the pin of the 'sneck.' ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)

Some anglers are partial to the Kirby bend, but perhaps you get better hold of your fish with the sneck bend hooks. ❋ R Lakeland (N/A)

They then wished her a good night and withdrew altogether, pulling the door quickly after them, so as to hasp the spring-sneck in the brass lock that was upon it. ❋ Elias Owen (N/A)

There was a soft rustling sound at the window as he spoke, and a slow step was heard, which seemed to drag along towards the door, then a fumbling at the sneck, the handle lifted, and the door opened slowly inwards, as if reluctant to reveal its secret. ❋ James C. Welsh (N/A)

"You are on the right tack," says he, "for I am waiting for his hand on the sneck any time this two hours past," and the dishes were hardly cleared away when the smuggler bent his head to be coming in the door, for in these days there were no locks in the Isle of the Peaks. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)

"Man, that's juist the very dollop," says Sandy, as I lifted the sneck. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)

That is, close up, shut up, or, as is said now, "bung up," -- emphatically, "We kept true time;" and the probability is, that in saying this, Sir Toby would accompany the words with the action of pushing an imaginary door; or _sneck up_. ❋ Various (N/A)

"A pot of scalding water and a servant wench at that back-window we came in by would be a good sneck against all that think of coming after us," said John Splendid, stepping into the passage where we had met Mistress ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

"See gin that door's on the sneck, Sandy, an 'dinna lat the can'le blaw oot." ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)

I was busy at a cold partridge, and hard at it, when I thought again how curious it was that my father should be a-foot in the house at such time of night and no one else about, he so early a bedder for ordinary and never the last to sneck the outer door. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

In the country parts of Lancashire, and indeed throughout the North of England, and it appears Scotland also, the term "sneck the door" is used indiscriminately with "shut the door" or "toin't dur." ❋ Various (N/A)

In Thrums the word used is steek, and sneck seemed to the inhabitants so droll and ridiculous that Hobart got the name of Snecky. ❋ Unknown (1898)