steek

American  

[steek, stayk] / stik, steɪk /

verb (used with object)

Scot.

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

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Etymology

Origin of steek

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

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Example Sentences

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steek

I mean de leetle stones, de pieces of steek, wood, plastair.

From Among the Brigands by James De Mille

"Tammas's coat is crying, 'A steek in time saves nine,' and by my faith it says true;" and so on.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII by John Mackay Wilson

Don't matter, w'en ban' dey be ready, de foreman      strek out wit' hees steek, An' fiddle an' ev'ryt'ing else too, begin for      play up de musique.

From The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems by William Henry Drummond

Then up and gat her seven sisters, And sewed to her a kell; And every steek that they pat in Sewed to a siller bell.

From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Sir Walter Scott

For if ye come a second time, Samuel Whan, the porter, will have his orders to steek the yett in your face!”

From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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