Sc. [Cf. SNIB sb.3]
1. trans. To fasten (a door, etc.) by means of a snib or catch; to shut in in this way.
1808. Jamieson, To Snib a door, to fasten it with a small bolt.
1861. E. B. Ramsay, Remin., Ser. II. 185. Quite a vulgar body, so much so as to ask any one leaving the room to ‘snib the door.’
1864. J. Brown, Horæ Subs., Jeems, Hurrying them to their appointed place, Jeems snibbed them slowly in.
1869. N. & Q., 4th Ser. IV. 467/2. When a door is snibbed it cannot be opened from the outside.
2. To catch, secure.
1813. Picken, Poems, I. 59. I’se … reveal to you How … I [sc. a rat] maist was snibbit.
1819. R. Gall, Poems, 134. The Dutchmen endeavoured to rin for’t, But fand themselves snib’d in a girn.
Hence Snibbing-bolt.
1844. H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, I. 218. Fine water-closet latch, with snibbing-bolt and 5-inch joints.
