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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
snib /snɪb/ chiefly Scottish & Irish

▶noun a lock, latch, or fastening for a door or window.

■ a small catch on a lock which holds the bolt in or out.

▶verb (snibs, snibbing, snibbed) fasten or lock.

– origin C19: perh. from Low Ger. snibbe ‘beak-like point’.

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