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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sneck.

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Examples

  • "There was never an outer door snecked since you left, Colin," said he, turning awkwardly away and looking hard into the loof of his hand like

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • In a moment the basket was in the house, the door snecked, and Bobby released on the hearth.

    Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

  • But she snecked and barred the bothy door, and merrily did shout

    The Bonny Shepherd Lad 1898

  • Ay, but when I focht to bring out these words, my mouth snecked like a box.

    The Little Minister 1898

  • He was so full of his duties, Jean said, that though he pulled to the door as he left the manse, he had passed the currant bushes before it snecked.

    The Little Minister 1898

  • Though an expert swordsman, he had never been able to accomplish, the art of opening a gate, especially one of those gingerly balanced spring-snecked things that require to be taken at the nick of time, or else they drop just as the horse gets his nose to them.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • True, I said sneck for "latch" and would say, "You've closed the door but not snecked it"; I called the local stream a beck, an alley a ghinnel, and cow-dung at the local farm muck (rhyming with look); I shortened the to t ', as in "I'm going to t' shops, "and even used thee and thou, but only with my Quaker friend, for I knew that the second person singular had died out among eddicated people.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3 1986

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