Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A latch or catch. · The nose. · A cut.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo latch, to lock. · To cut.
From Middle English snek, sneke, snekke, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots sneck. Possibly from Old English *snecce, from Proto-West Germanic *snakikā, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *snak- (“to blow; sniff; nibble”) and thus related to English snatch.
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