steeks

present tense third-person singular of steek, chiefly Scottish
as in shuts
to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening Macleod threatened to steek the door in my face if I ever said a word against the Scots again

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“Steeks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steeks. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.

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