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Latch: Scot
Answer for the clue "Latch: Scot ", 5 letters:
sneck
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Word definitions for sneck in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Northern England Scotland English) A latch or catch. 2 (context Northern England Scotland English) The nose. 3 A cut. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To latch, to lock. 2 (context transitive English) To cut.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sneck \Sneck\, v. t. [See Snatch .] To fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Sneck up , be silent; shut up; hold your peace. --Shak.
Usage examples of sneck.
Even the sneck of the door that led to the front room had glints of white along its black handle.
Now he put his lips on hers and held her close to him until there was a rattle on the sneck of the door, and they moved apart.
There was a small door let into the large one, fastened with a sneck one of those old-fashioned catches operated by your thumb.
Noreen lifted up the heavy sneck of the oven door and drew out the iron shelf on which were two dozen round pie tins, the pie crusts raised with a shiny crown from the colouring of burnt sugar with which they had been brushed.
Stealthily clicking the sneck on the back gate, he looked up and saw the shadow of ragged wings, moving across it.
In a moment the basket was in the house, the door snecked, and Bobby released on the hearth.