sneck

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: See Snatch.

To fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door. Scottish & dialect (England)

Sneck up, be silent; shut up; hold your peace. William Shakespeare

A door latch. Scottish & dialect (England)

Sneck band, a latchstring. Robert Burns — Sneck drawer, a latch lifter; a bolt drawer; hence, a sly person; a cozener; a cheat; — called also sneckdraw. — Sneck drawing, lifting the latch.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

<jargon> The sound made by deboursification, according to Sam Spade anti-spam software.

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