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▪ I. sneck, n.1 Chiefly Sc. and north. dial.|snɛk|
Forms: α. 4–5 snekke, 5 snekk, 5–7, 9 snek, 5–6 sneke; 6– sneck, 7 snecke; 7, 9 snack; 8 snake. β. 8– snick.
[Of obscure origin: cf. snatch n. 1.]
1. The latch of a door or gate; the lever which raises the bar of a latch; † a catch (cf. 2 a).
α1324Acc. Exch., K.R. Bd. 165 No. 1 m. 4, Pro xxviij snekkes cum xxviij stapulis ad tenendum trendles ligni pro springaldis tendendis. 1419Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 147 Et in j snek ad ostium pulpiti, 1d. c1440Promp. Parv. 461/2 Snekke, or latche, clitorium, pessulum. c1460Towneley Myst. xiii. 306 Mak. Good wyff, open the hek!.. Vxor. I may thole the dray the snek. 1530Palsgr. 272/1 Sneke, latche, locquet, clicquette. 1560Extr. Burgh Rec. Peebles (1872) 258 To vphald substantiousle thair portis in..stapillis, snekkis and all irne graith necessare. 1600Churchw. Acc. Pittington, etc. (Surtees) 133 For mending the North church gate, and also an iron sneck. 1638Ibid. 302 A snecke for the ministers sette. c1725in J. J. Vernon Parish of Hawick (1900) 80 Paid for 2 Snecks for Quire doore. 1770Bp. Forbes Jrnl. (1886) 303 Any one, by Night or by Day, can lift the Sneck and come in. 1781–in many dial. glossaries and texts (Sc., N. Ir., N. Cy., E. Ang., Derby, Warw., etc.). 1816Scott Antiq. xxxiii, The sneck was drawn, and the Countess..entered my dwelling. 1853G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas II. 216 Sometimes the demons will undo the sneck of the gate. 1885J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 50 The old man lifted the ‘sneck’ quickly and caught us.
β1786Burns The Vision vii, When click! the string the snick did draw. 1889A. Munro Siren Casket 169 He raised the snick Of Allan's cottage door.
b. to draw a sneck, to act cunningly or stealthily.
a1500in Ratis Raving, etc. 89 Thar word is fyrst in awdiens, With fenȝeand falsat ay reddy To draw a snek rycht subtely. 1786Burns To G. Hamilton iii, I ken he weel a Snick can draw, When simple bodies let him.
c. on the sneck, latched. So off the sneck.
1824Scott St. Ronan's xxviii, I'se warrant it a twa-handed ghaist, and the door left on the sneck. 1893Stevenson Catriona xv. 167 The door was on the sneck that day. 1897Crockett Lads' Love iv. 43 Then..leave the lang window o' the ben room off the sneck, after the lairds are awa'.
2. techn.
a. A catch or device for holding the lever of a spinning-machine.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 426 When in geer they [i.e. levers] are held firm by the sneck. Ibid., The machine is put in motion by raising the main lever into the sneck by hand.
b. (See quot.)
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-m. 229 Snecks, appliances for diverting wagons from the main line into a siding.
3. dial. or techn. in various senses (see quots.).
1810S. Smith Agric. Surv. Galloway 86 Besides the improvement of locked tops [in stone walls], he invented also snecks or hudds, i.e. spaces built single at short intervals. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Sneck, a small piece or tongue of land, abutting on or intersecting an adjoining field. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-m. 229 Sneck, a carving [= air-way].
4. attrib., as sneck-fastening, sneck-lock; sneck-band (see quot. 1828); sneck-bend, a form of fish-hook (see quots.); sneck posset, a cold reception or greeting; a discharge or dismissal; sneck-string, a sneck-band.
The Eng. Dial. Dict. contains a number of other examples.
14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 733 Hec mastiga, a *snek⁓bank [? read -band]. Hic gumfus, a dorbande. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Sneck-band, the string fastened to the latch, and passed through a hole to the outside of the door. 1855Waugh Life & Local. 106 The door is still opened from without by a ‘sneck-bant’.
1816Bainbridge Fly Fisher's Guide 31 The *Sneckbend, as it is commonly called, diverges from the parallel lines from the bend upwards. 1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Rural Sports i. v. ii. 235 Many Scotchmen use what is called the sneckbend, differing slightly from both of the above [hooks], in being made of a more square shape.
1844H. Stephens Book of Farm I. 204, 10 Pairs of crooks and bands for feeding-holes. 10 *Sneck-fastenings for ditto.
1570Wills & Inv. (Surtees, 1835) 312, I do geve vnto An Jaxssonn one woode Cheast which haithe a *sneck locke.
1876J. Richardson Cumbld. Talk Ser. ii. 65 A *sneck posset I gat. 1885Hall Caine Shadow Crime 8 He had his own reasons for not quitting Wythburn after he had received his very unequivocal ‘sneck posset’.
1758W. Reckitt Jrnl. (1799) 59 They did not so much as pull in their *sneck-string when they went to bed and had neither lock nor bar.
▪ II. sneck, n.2 Sc.
[f. sneck v.2]
A sharp cut; a snick or snip.
1768Ross Helenore ii. 84 The gully..may chance to gee's a sneck into the hand. 1814Scott Wav. xli, If there's a pair of sheers in the Highlands that has a baulder sneck than her's ain.
▪ III. sneck, n.3
[Imitative.]
A sharp clicking sound. Cf. snick n.3
1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. iv, Back went the girth buckles with a ‘sneck’. 1861A. Leighton Trad. Sc. Life Ser. ii. 116 An industrious house too, wherein the birr of the wheel and the sneck of the reel had sounded.
▪ IV. sneck, v.1 Chiefly Sc. and north. dial.|snɛk|
Also 5 snekk-, 9 snek.
[f. sneck n.1]
1. trans. To latch (a door or gate); to close or fasten with or by means of a sneck.
c1440Promp. Parv. 284/2 Latchyn, or snekkyn, pessulo. 1560Maitl. Club. Misc. III. 239 The deponar..fand the dur snecked and vnbarred and sche barred the dur. 1674Ray N.C. Words 43 Snock [1691 Sneck] the door: Latch the door. 1768Ross Helenore 36 Sae out she slips, an' snecks the door behind. 1787–in dial. glossaries and texts (Sc., N. Cy., Notts., Linc., Warw., etc.). 1868G. Macdonald R. Falconer I. 175 Sneck the door, laddie. 1889Carlisle Patriot 1 Mar. (E.D.D.), If the gate had been snecked, the cattle could not have got on the line.
b. To lock or shut up. In quot. fig.
1816Scott Antiq. xxix, The secrets of grit folk..are just like the wild beasts that are shut up in cages. Keep them hard and fast snecked up, and it's a' very weel.
c. intr. Of a door or gate: To latch, shut.
1871J. H. Ewing Brownies, etc. 107 The gate opened for them and snecked after them. 1889Tennyson Owd Roä xxxii, I'd clear forgot..thy chaumber door wouldn't sneck.
2. trans. (See quot. 1808.) Sc.
1792Stat. Acc. Scotl. II. 534 Farm-houses and Cottages.—..A very few of them have been stob-thatched, or covered with a deep coat of straw,—and snecked or harled with lime. 1808Jamieson, To sneck with lime, to make indentations in a wall, filling the blanks with lime; or, in building, to insert a small quantity between the stones in the outer side.
▪ V. sneck, v.2 Sc.|snɛk|
[Origin, and relation to snick v.2, uncertain.]
trans. To cut (off).
1560Rolland Seven Sages 103 He tuik hir be the nek, And with ane knife hir heid he did of snek. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxxii, Do the folk think I hae another thrapple in my pouch after John Highlandman's sneckit this ane wi' his joctaleg? 1835Carrick Laird Logan (1854) 156 Mony a ane o' my acquaintances hae gotten the thread o' life sneckit.
▪ VI. sneck, v.3 Now dial.
[Origin obscure.]
trans. To snatch; to take or seize quickly.
1607Middleton Five Gallants i. ii, Pursn. Her Chaine of Pearle. Boy. I sneckt it away finely. 1873Murdoch Doric Lyre 43 When rent day comes ye're unca fain To look us up an' sneck the siller. |