neaped
simple past tense and past participle of neap
neaped (not comparable)
(nautical) Left aground on the height of a spring tide, preventing floating till the next spring tide.
• beneaped
• Peaden, panéed, peaned
Source: Wiktionary
Neaped, a. (Naut.)
Definition: Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped.
Neap, n. Etym: [Cf. Neb, Nape.]
Definition: The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals. [U.S.]
Neap, a. Etym: [As. nepflod neap flood; cf. hnipian to bend, incline.]
Definition: Low. Neap tides, the lowest tides of the lunar month, which occur in the second and fourth quarters of the moon; -- opposed to spring tides.
Neap, n.
Definition: A neap tide. High springs and dead neaps. Harkwill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 March 2025
(noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; “immobilization of the injured knee was necessary”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
