neaped

[ neept ]

adjective

, Nautical.

1. grounded until the next cycle of spring tides.

Word History and Origins

Origin of neaped¹

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

P. 123, BOUND, 'Neap' amended to Neaped.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

The tides were then neaped, and the remark made by Captain Cook, that 'they had only one high tide in twenty-four hours' seemed to apply in this bay; for, although the sloop was got up as high as the strength of the crew would admit, yet she righted a full hour and a half before the night tide had done flowing, and shortly after one man haled her off.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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