steek

[ steek, steyk ]

/ stik, steɪk /

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verb (used with object) Scot.

to shut, close, fasten or lock (a window, door, or the like).

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Origin of steek

1150–1200; Middle English (north) steken (v.), Old English stician to prick, stab

Steek t' door of your house--if ye own one--and t' door o' your heart--if ye own one--and then ye'll never rue.
Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories|Juliana Horatio Ewing
The lovely "steek" with the gravy in it—that is to say, nearly raw—was now ready, and father and son adjourned to the next room.
Castle Richmond|Anthony Trollope
In Thrums the word used is steek, and sneck seemed to the inhabitants so droll and ridiculous that Hobart got the name of Snecky.
Auld Licht Idylls|J. M. Barrie
His banes is but saft yet, There wasna a dry steek on him or he wan half the lenth o' the first bout.
David Elginbrod|George MacDonald

Man, I fully meant to turn the bairn, but she ran by at sic a steek 'at there was nae stoppin' her.
When a Man's Single|J. M. Barrie