seeks

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At length they hear their faither's fit,   An' as he steeks the door They turn their faces to the wa',   While Tam pretends to snore.

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey

And now he gaes daund'ring about the dykes, And a' he dow do is to hund the tykes: The live-lang nicht he ne'er steeks his e'e— And werena my heart's licht, I wad dee.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

J. gives “to the steeks, completely;” and this is the sense here.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

Also he was the only man that could keep steeks with John Scarlet at the sword play, and I longed rarely to see him try a bout with Wat of Lochinvar himself.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

At length they hear their father's fit, An', as he steeks the door, They turn their faces to the wa', While Tam pretends to snore.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert