A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1700+
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(Nepe-,) Neip-tide, -tyde, n. Also: neipe-, niepe-. [e.m.E. nepe tide (a 1548).] (A) neap tide. = Nepe n.2 —15.. Lynd. Rutter fol. 8 (B).
There is a great daunger causit be nepe tydis 1627 Banff Ann. II. 213 n.
That ane houris turnit flood sall overflow the … boundis … at ather streame or neip tyde 1655 Lamont Diary 95.
A deipe neipe tyde 1685 Sinclair Satan's Inv. World 7*.
For a harbour of deep water even at neip-tides 1710 Sc. Ant. VII. 94.
At low water in a niepe tide
