snib

American  

[snib] / snɪb /

noun

1. a bolt, catch, lock, or fastening on a door or window.

2. the catch that holds the bolt on a lock.

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verb (used with object)

snibbed, snibbing

1. to bolt or fasten (a door or window).

snib British  

/ snɪb /

noun

1. the bolt or fastening of a door, window, etc

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verb

1. to bolt or fasten (a door)

Etymology

Origin of snib

First recorded in 1800–10; of uncertain origin; perhaps from Low German snibbe ( German Schnippe ), Swedish snibb “beak, point”

Example Sentences

When outside he pulled, and the snib slid into place.

From The Green Mummy by Hume, Fergus

Mr. Bolton, after his interview with the woman, would of course snib the window, and pull down the blind.

From The Green Mummy by Hume, Fergus

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.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.

There is another sn which may perhaps be derived from the Latin sinuo, as snake, sneak, snail, snare; so likewise snap and snatch, snib, snub.

From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Johnson, Samuel

He afterwards passed a string through the joining of the upper and lower windows, and managed to shut the snib.

From The Green Mummy by Hume, Fergus