subs. phr. (Scots’).—A latchlifter; a slyboots. SNECK-DRAWING = crafty, cheating.

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  c. 1401.  Political Poems, ii. 98 [T. L. KINGTON-OLIPHANT, The New English, i. 192. Among the nouns SNECK-DRAWER; used by Scott].

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  d. 1796.  BURNS, Address to the Deil.

        Then you, ye auld SNECK-DRAWING dog!
Ye came to Paradise incog.

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  1817.  SCOTT, Rob Roy, xxxviii. Syddall is an auld SNECK-DRAWER.

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