steek

American  

[steek, steyk] / 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

Example Sentences

Thee gold steek together; thee gold melt in two; thee gold be in thee beeg lump; thee gold be damage’.

From Every Man for Himself by Duncan, Norman

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

O my man, my bonny man," she said, "there's nane to steek your e'en the nicht!

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

An' yet," he murmured, "there's the loss on the goods, an' the loss o' time, and the boat to steek afresh forbye the danger to life!

From Winter Evening Tales by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

"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 Wilson, John Mackay