snape

present singular third person snapes · participle present snaping · participle past snaped · past snaped

1. businessTo bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.

   It had to be accurately cut and trimmed, and its upper edge scored to suit the snaping of every beam end.

   2000, William L. Crothers, The American-built Clipper Ship, 1850-1856, International Marine, page 265

present singular third person snapes · participle present snaping · participle past snaped · past snaped

1. UKarchaicdialectaltransitiveTo check or curtail (the growth of something); also, to check or curtail the growth of (a plant, etc.).
2. UKarchaicdialectaltransitiveSynonym of sneap (“to check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand”).

   The colnel (sic) I dont think like him much. I undirstand (sic) he was always snaping him.

   1861, Terry A. Johnston, Him on One Side and Me on the Other, Univ. of South Carolina Press, p48, 1999 (quoting Alexander Campbell)

   Synonyms: sneap

3. UKarchaicdialectalintransitiveTo chide, to rebuke, to reprimand.

   I imagine her prodding my flab and snaping, "There's nothing there — get rid of that!"

   2001, Joan Raphael-Leff, Pregnancy: The Inside Story, Karnac Books, page 22

   1 more example

   He saw nothing, heard nothing, rushed on, he knew not whither, snaping, and uttering hoarse cries.

   1871, John Esten Cooke, Out of the Foam

1. A village in Snape with Thorp parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE2684).
2. A village and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in Suffolk Coastal district (OS grid ref TM3958).
3. A surname from Old English.