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”

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Example Sentences

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snib snibbed snibbing

Tommy said nothing, but—but one of the school-windows was without a snib, and next morning when the dominie reached his desk he was surprised to find on it a little cotton glove.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

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

From The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume

The snib was an old one, and he yanked a piece of string round it, and passed the string through the crack between the upper and lower sash of the window.

From The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume

"Did Sir Reginald ever forget to snib the windows, supposing one happened to be open?"

From Simon by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

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

From The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume

And it's impossible the man can have opened a snibbed windie and got in, with some one sitting in the room, and no alarm given.

From Simon by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

Shut, sir; and the most extraordinary thing was that it was snibbed too!

From Simon by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

“Manny’s the toime Oi’ve snibbed a latch loike that in Oireland,” she said, and she smiled so hard that her very wrinkles seemed to twinkle.

From Maida's Little Shop by Inez Haynes Gillmore

And schewed welles of watres ware, And groundes of ertheli world unhiled are, For thi snibbing, Laverd myne; For onesprute of gast of wreth thine.

From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

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