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▪ I. snape, n.1 dial.
[f. snape v.1]
a. A snub, rebuke, or check.
b. A check to growth; a change to cold or bad weather.
1828–in dial. glossaries and texts (Eng. Dial. Dict.).
▪ II. snape, n.2 rare.
[f. snape v.2]
A tapering, a bevel; an act of snaping.
1794Rigging & Seamanship 23 The lower ends [are] haunched away with a snape, resembling the bill of a duck. Ibid. 28 The lower ends are..thinned with a duck's-bill snape.
▪ III. † snape, n.3 Obs.—1
(Meaning uncertain.)
In south-western dial. snape denotes a spring or boggy place in a field; it is very doubtful if this can be the same word.
a1400–50Alexander 1560 As blaȝt ere þaire wedis As any snyppand snawe þat in þe snape liȝtis.
▪ IV. snape, v.1 Now dial.|sneɪp|
Forms: 4 (9) snaip (4 snaipe), 4–5 snayp- (5 snaypp-), 5– snape, 6 snep, 9 snaap, etc. See also sneap v.
[a. ON. sneypa to outrage, dishonour, disgrace (Icel. sneypa to chide, snub, Norw. snøypa to withdraw, draw in, pinch, etc., MSw. and Sw. snöpa to castrate).]
†1. trans. To be hard upon; to harm, damage, or injure in some way. Obs.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2003 Þe snawe snitered ful snart, þat snayped þe wylde. c1400Anturs of Arth. vii, Þe slete and þe snawe, þat snayppede þame so snelle. a1400–50Alexander 3995 Sire Porrus with a proude swerd him on þe pan strikis, So snelle at he snatirs with, nere snaypid him for euire.
2. To rebuke or snub (a person, etc.) sharply or severely; to check, restrain, or curb (a child); to call off (a dog). Now dial.
a1300Cursor M. 13027 Vte of desert þar he was in, He com to snaip þe king sinn. Ibid. 22103 Vr lauerd snaips þir tua tuns, And þus he sais in his sermuns. 1483Cath. Angl. 346/2 To Snape, corripere. 1570Levins Manip. 26 To Snape, redarguere. 1601[Bp. W. Barlow] Defence 201 Durand snaped, about originall sinne, and merite in the workes of grace. 1691Ray N.C. Words, To snape or sneap, to check [a child]. 1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 353 To Snape, to silence, check, or at least threaten, as a barking dog, or a mischievous child. 1811–freq. in dial. glossaries (Cumb., Durh., Yks., Lancs., Staffs., Shrops., etc.).
b. To check or stop (growth); to blight, nip, or mar the growth of (a plant, etc.). Now dial.
1630Craven God's Tribunal (1631) 12 Magistrates, have you laboured to snape the growth of sinne. 1828–in dial. glossaries (Cumb., Yks., etc.).
3. dial. To stint of food.
1847Halliw., A step-mother snapes her step-children-in-law of their meat. 1869–in Eng. Dial. Dict.
Hence † ˈsnaping vbl. n., rebuking, snubbing.
a1300Cursor M. 18853 In his snaiping [Trin. snybbyng] auful was he. Ibid. 24007 Mi spirite for yeild i wend, Þair snaiping was sa smert. 1555Inst. Gentleman C ij b, To correcte them in wordes, which manye fonde mothers doo call snepping of a childe, dyscoraging his boldnes.
▪ V. snape, v.2 techn.|sneɪp|
[Possibly the same word as prec.: cf. sneipe v.]
1. trans. To cause or make to taper; spec. in Shipbuilding (see quot. 1846).
(a)1794Rigging & Seamanship 10 Snaping, reducing the ends of any piece to a less substance. Ibid. 24 Short fillings are remedied by snaping their ends. 1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 288 Snape, or Flinch, in shipbuilding, to bevel the end of any thing so as to fay upon an inclined surface. [Hence in Weale, Smyth, etc.] 1869Reed Shipbuild. xiii. 144 The butts of the plates were each snaped away with the hammer.
(b)1841Hamilton Nugæ Lit. 354 The handle of a knife is snaped. 1888Addy Sheffield Gloss. s.v., A blacksmith is said to snape a piece of iron to a point when by hammering or some other process he tapers it off to a point.
2. intr. To taper (off).
1794Rigging & Seamanship 24 The lower end of the long filling snapes. 1874Thearle Naval Arch. 57 The deck plank snapes off to a sliver edge.
Hence snaped ppl. a. (See quot.)
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2229/1 Snaped Timber, timber cut beveling, so that one face is narrower than the other. |