单词 | beneaped |
释义 | beneaped, ppl. a. Naut.|bɪˈniːpt| [f. be- prefix 7 + neap.] a. Of a ship: Left aground by the neap tide, and so lying beyond the reach of high water, until the tide flows higher.
1692in Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. i. xvi. 80 A Ship is beneaped..when the water does not flow high enough to bring [it] off the ground, or out of a Dock, or over a Bar. 1868Exeter & Plymouth Gaz. 13 Mar., The ship was beneaped. 1884F. Pollock in Eng. Illus. Mag. Dec. 156 These [trawlers] are now and again ‘beneaped’ at low tides. b. fig.
1913T. Hardy Places in Coll. Poems (1930) 332 One there is..To whom to-day is beneaped and stale. |

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