Definition of "snape"

snape¹

/sneɪp/

verb
third-person singular simple present snapes, present participle snaping, simple past and past participle snaped
1. (nautical, shipbuilding) To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.
  Quotations
  It had to be accurately cut and trimmed, and its upper edge scored to suit the snaping of every beam end.
  2000, William L. Crothers, The American-built Clipper Ship, 1850-1856, International Marine, page 265

snape²

/sneɪp/

verb
third-person singular simple present snapes, present participle snaping, simple past and past participle snaped
1. (transitive)
  1. To check or curtail (the growth of something); also, to check or curtail the growth of (a plant, etc.).
  2. Synonym of sneap (“to check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand”)
    Quotations
    The colnel (sic) I dont think like him much. I undirstand (sic) he was always snaping him.
    1861, Terry A. Johnston, Him on One Side and Me on the Other, Univ. of South Carolina Press, p48, 1999 (quoting Alexander Campbell)
2. (intransitive) To chide, to rebuke, to reprimand.
  Quotations
  He saw nothing, heard nothing, rushed on, he knew not whither, snaping, and uttering hoarse cries.
  1871, John Esten Cooke, Out of the Foam
  I imagine her prodding my flab and snaping, "There's nothing there — get rid of that!"
  2001, Joan Raphael-Leff, Pregnancy: The Inside Story, Karnac Books, page 22