Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Chiefly British To latch (a door or window): "[The] window is snibbed on the inner side” ( Arthur Conan Doyle).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To check; reprimand; snub; sneap or sneb.
- n. A reproof; a reprimand; a snub.
- In lumbering, to allow one's self to be carried away (ostensibly by accident) on the first portion of a jam that moves; ride away from work under the guise of being accidentally carried off in river-driving.
Wiktionary
- n. Scotland A latch or fastening for a door, window etc.
- n. obsolete A reprimand; a snub.
- v. Scotland To latch (a door, window etc.).
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To check; to sneap; to sneb.
- n. obsolete A reprimand; a snub.
Etymologies
- Origin uncertain. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He pressed the snib to unlatch the lid of the case.”
“He heard the lock snib before she turned and surveyed him, then, head rising, crossed the room to him.”
“She was no curtaintwitcher, like many round here, and despite the torrential flow of other people's business through what was not just her home but her business, she had never succumbed to the temptation to poke her snib in where it hadn't been invited.”
“Anyway, if Kemp came to the door he'd notice the snib was off ...”
“Gently, Rebus turned the snib and locked it at the off position.”
“Well, perhaps not worldly-wise, not wise enough to know how snib locks and human minds worked, but wise in other ways.”
“Monica closed it gently down, and fastened the snib.”
“It was the same as all the others: a sash window with a snib locking the upper to the lower frame.”
“The door was aff the snib; an ', keep me, when I lookit in, here's Sandy wi' an Oddfella's kilt an 'a bushbie on, an' his ilky-day's claes lyin 'in a pozel on the table.”
“You would depart, of course, in the same fashion, and your ally would draw up the rope, untie it from the hook, shut the window, snib it on the inside, and get away in the way that he originally came.”
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ruzuzu "1. In lumbering, to allow one's self to be carried away (ostensibly by accident) on the first portion of a jam that moves; ride away from work under the guise of being accidentally carried off in river-driving." --Cent. Dict.
Sep 1, 2011