sneck - the very word snaps in the mind capturing better than any
'latch' or other name its sharp, metallic nature, summoning up
its layered northern history like stone and sword; like others, too,
the casual brutality of schoolboy talk, I'll sneck you one; or beck
and ghyll, fell, syke, snicket and wynd; the ancient tongue of a
hardy unsentimental folk, dissenting, stubborn, suspicious and
as sparing of their words as their friendship; eyes blue as a clear dale
sky, hard as chipped granite: sneck, the cool weight on your index
finger as you lift it up, then push the loose-fitting wood of the door;
sneck, as it drops back when you let go; sneck, as it rises again
and falls when you push the door shut behind you...