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

Words nearby steek

Stębark, stech, Stechhelm, stedfast, steed, steek, steel, steel band, steel blue, steel drum, Steele

How to use steek in a sentence

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