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Sneck vs Snib - What's the difference?

sneck | snib |

As nouns the difference between sneck and snib

is that sneck is a latch or catch while snib is a latch or fastening for a door, window etc.

As verbs the difference between sneck and snib

is that sneck is to latch, to lock while snib is to latch (a door, window etc.).

sneck

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Northern England, Scotland) A latch or catch.
  • *1980 , (JL Carr), A Month in the Country , Penguin 2010, p. 3:
  • *:The graveyard wall was in good repair, although, surprisingly, the narrow gate's sneck was smashed and it was held-to by a loop of binder twine.
  • (Northern England, Scotland) The nose.
  • A cut.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To latch, to lock.
  • To cut.

    • Derived terms

    * sneck-bend * sneck lifter * sneck posset * sneckyeat * sneck up

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    snib

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A latch or fastening for a door, window etc.
  • *2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 99:
  • *:He did not like me coming in except if I was going to bed. I heard him saying to my maw about a snib for the door.
  • (obsolete) A reprimand; a snub.
    • (Marston)

    Verb

    (snibb)
  • (Scotland) To latch (a door, window etc.).
  • *1890 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Sign of the Four , VI:
  • *:‘Window is snibbed on the inner side. Frame-work is solid. No hinges at the side. Let us open it.’

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