snapes

Verb (1)

snape (third-person singular simple present snapes, present participle snaping, simple past and past participle snaped)

1. To 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

Verb (2)

snape (third-person singular simple present snapes, present participle snaping, simple past and past participle snaped)

1. (UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive) To check or curtail (the growth of something); also, to check or curtail the growth of (a plant, etc.).
2. (UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive) Synonym 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. (UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive) To chide, to rebuke, to reprimand.
   • He saw nothing, heard nothing, rushed on, he knew not whither, snaping, and uttering hoarse cries.1871, John Esten Cooke, Out of the Foam

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