1) Rebuff, old style 2) Rebuff, Scottish style 3) Slang for a petty thief
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A snib is a manually operated catch for the internal locking of Yale type locks. Once operated it prevents key holders from using the lock externally, or allows the door to be closed without the lock engaging. Colloquial (UK) also the button inside car doors for locking the car. The term may also be used (as a noun) to indicate the bolt or latch o...
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• (n.) A reprimand; a snub. • (v. t.) To check; to sneap; to sneb.
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Snib noun A reprimand; a snub. [ Obsolete]
Marston. Found on
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Snib transitive verb [ Middle English
snibben ; confer Danish
snibbe , and English
snub ,
transitive verb ] To check; to sneap; to sneb. [ Obsolete] « Him would he
snib sharply for the nones.»
Chaucer. Found on
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Snib was an old term for a sharp rebuke or a snub.
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In architecture, snib is an old Scottish and Irish term for a lock, catch, or fastening for a door, window, etc.
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Snib is slang for a petty thief.
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a wooden toggle used to hold the work on a table.
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