unsnecked

Updated: August 12, 2026

I was busy at a cold partridge, and hard at it, when I thought again how curious it was that my father should be a-foot in the house at such time of night and no one else about, he so early a bedder for ordinary and never the last to sneck the outer door. "Did you expect any one, father," I asked, "that you should be waiting up with the collation, and the outer door unsnecked?"

Neil Munro - John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn