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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sneck .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. A door latch, or sneck.
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- noun UK, dialect a
door latch
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knitandpurl commented on the word snecket
"A piece of verse on the bottom of a page in the newspaper was ringed with red crayon. In the margin, written in black ink, were the words, 'A cricket is a stool but a fool wrote this. And the nobility, where is that?' The verse was headed, 'A Receipt to Cure a Love Fit'.
Tie one end of a rope fast over a beam,
And make a slip-noose at the other extreme;
Then just underneath let a cricket be set,
On which the lover must manfully get;
Then over his head let the snecket be got,
And under one ear be well settled the knot.
The cricket kicked down, let him take a fair swing,
And leave all the rest of the work to the string."
--The Winner of Sorrow by Brian Lynch, pp 43-44
July 12, 2009