beneapedadj.
/bɪˈniːpt/ Nautical.
a. Of a ship: Left aground by the neap tide, and so lying beyond the reach of high water, until the tide flows higher.
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1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xvi. 80 A Ship is beneaped..when the water does not flow high enough to bring a ship from off the ground, or out of a Dock, or over a Bar.
1868 Exeter & Plymouth Gaz. 12 Mar. The ship was beneaped.
1884 F. Pollock in Eng. Illus. Mag. Dec. 156 These [trawlers] are now and again ‘beneaped’ at low tides.
b. figurative.
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1914 T. Hardy Satires of Circumstance 124 One there is..To whom to-day is beneaped and stale.
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