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Lift the sneck, and draw the bar. "

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  1. To snatch. [Obsolete or provincial.] Her chain of pearl? I sneckt it away finely. Middleton, Your Five Gallants, i. 2.
  2. Snecked rubble. See rubble.
  3. sneck up, snick up (also sneak up), shut up! be hanged! go hang! used interjectionally. We did keep time, sir, in our catches. Sneck up! Shak., T. N., ii. 3. 101. Dost want a master? if thou dost, I'm for thee; Else choose, and sneck-up! Ford, Lady's Trial, iii. 2. Give him his money, George, and let him go snick-up. Beau. and Fl., Knight of Burning Pestle, iii. 2. She shall not rise, sir, goe, let your Master snick-up. Heywood, Fair Maid of the West (Works, ed. 1874, II. 268).
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  • The Captain was appointed: his nomination, however, did not take place for some months after; and the postscript of a {p.214} letter to the Duke of Buccleuch, dated May 14, 1818, plainly indicates the interest on which Scott mainly relied for its completion: "If you happen," he writes, "to see Lord Melville, pray give him a jog about Ferguson's affair; but between ourselves, I depend chiefly on the kind offices of Willie Adam, who is an auld sneck-drawer." —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
  • When we pulled open the door, and took forward one of the candles, there was James doubled up, sticking twofold like a rotten in a sneck-trap, in an old chair, the bottom of which had gone down before him, and which, for some craize about it, had been put out of the way by Nanse, that no accident might happen. —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
  • Running round the counter like lightning, I opened the sneck, and halooed to her to wheel to the right about, having, somehow or other, a superstitious longing to look at the article. —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
  • At that time, every man had a 'new principle' of his own for the sneck of the shears, some theoretical mode of cutting, which was to make the coat fit like the skin. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852
  • "See gin that door's on the sneck, Sandy, an' dinna lat the can'le blaw oot Sandy raise an' put to the door, an' set the can'le alang nearer Bandy a bit, an' then sat doon i' the sofa again I hinna muckle to say," says Bandy. —  My Man Sandy
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  1. A variant of snack.
  2. from sneck, v.
  3. from Middle English sneck, snekk, snekke, snek, a latch; prob, from snack, v., catch, snatch: see snack, snatch.
  4. from sneck, n.
 

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