snibbing

Verb

snib (third-person singular simple present snibs, present participle snibbing, simple past and past participle snibbed)

1. (Australia, Scotland, transitive) To latch (a door, window, etc.).
   • Window is snibbed on the inner side. Framework is solid. No hinges at the side. Let us open it.1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 90
2. (obsolete) to rebuke, to scold, to reprimand
   • As at the stok the bere; Snybbith the hardy houndis that ar ken.

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