sneap (snep)

t. [Formerly also sneep; E. dial. also snape; sneypa, a disgrace), Sw.snöpa, castrate; cf. Sw. snoppa, cut off, snuff a candle; snubba, reprove: see snip, snib, snub1.] 1. To check; reprove abruptly; reprimand. But life that's here, When into it the soul doth closely wind, Is often sneep'd by anguish and by fear, With vexing pain and rage that she no'te easly bear. Dr. H. More , Sleep of the Soul, iii. 18. 2. To nip; bite; pinch. Give the sneaped birds more cause to sing. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 333. [Obsolete or provincial in both uses.] sneap (snep), n. [ sneap , v .] A reprimand; a rebuke; a check; a snub. [Obsolete or provincial.] sneer I will not undergo this sneap without reply. Shak . , 2 Hen. IV., ii. 1. 133. These sneaps and reproofs weighed so much on the mind of the Bishop that, as he declared, he watered them many times with salt tears. R. W. Dizon , Hist. Church of Eng., vii. sneart, v. An obsolete spelling of sneer. sneath, sneathe (snēth, snēTH). Same as snead1, snead2, snathe1, snathe2, snath. snebt (sneb), v. t. A variant of snib. sneck1 (snek), v. t. [Avar. of snack.] To snatch. [Obsolete or provincial.] Her chain of pearl? I sneckt it away finely. Middle ton , Your Five Gallants, i. 2. Snecked rubble. See rubble . - Sneck upt, snick upt (also sneak up ), shut up! be hanged! go hang! used interjectionally. We did keep time, sir, in our catches. Sneck up ! Shak., T. N., ii. 3. 101. Dost want a master? if thou dost, I'm for thee; Else choose, and sneck - up ! Ford , Lady's Trial, iii. 2. Give him his money, George, and let him go snick - up . Beau . and Fl ., Knight of Burning Pestle, iii. 2. She shall not rise, sir, goe, let your Master snick - up . Heywood , Fair Maid of the West (Works, ed. 1874, II. 268). sneck1 (snek), n. [ An industrious house, wherein the birr of the wheel and the sneck of the reel had sounded. A. Leighton, Traditions of Scottish Life, p. 116.