Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sneck \Sneck\, n.
   A door latch. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

   {Sneck band}, a latchstring. --Burns.

   {Sneck drawer}, a latch lifter; a bolt drawer; hence, a sly
      person; a cozener; a cheat; -- called also {sneckdraw}.

   {Sneck drawing}, lifting the latch.