neaped

American  

[neept] / nipt /

adjective

Nautical.

1. grounded until the next cycle of spring tides.

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Etymology

Origin of neaped

First recorded in 1695–1705; neap ¹ + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Past critics were thoroughly cowed and browbeaten, not unjustly, for their classic misjudgments, beginning with the scorn neaped on Manet's Olympia and culminating in the ridicule showered on the impressionists, the Fauves and the cubists.

From Time Magazine Archive

One was in consequence chartered, but, being neaped in the harbor of Rimouski, did not reach Metis till the 19th August.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 4, part 2: John Tyler by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

A tide that neaped the frail bark of happiness high and dry upon the shores of black despair.

From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Sabatini, Rafael

But she bided her time, and, when he went to bathe, she slipped into the cave and swept it and neaped it and tidied up all the utensils used by him for worship.

From Deccan Nursery Tales or, Fairy Tales from the South by Kincaid, C. A. (Charles Augustus)

The crew had signed for a voyage to Malmo; and the owner hurried the ship away because he feared she might be "neaped" in the little river, as the tides were taking off.

From The Romance of the Coast by Runciman, James