ppl. a. Naut. [f. BE- pref. 7 + NEAP.] Of a ship: Left aground by the neap tide, and so lying beyond the reach of high water, until the tide flows higher.
1692. in 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.
1868. Exeter & Plymouth Gaz., 13 March. The ship was beneaped.
1884. F. Pollock, in Eng. Illus. Mag., Dec., 156. These [trawlers] are now and again ‘beneaped’ at low tides.
