neep
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noun Scot.
a turnip.
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Example sentences from the Web for neep
Rogers speaks of shipping while at Batavia "half a leaguer of Spelman's neep, or the best sort of arrack."
Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne|Robert C. LeslieIs the modern term "nip of spirit" derived from this word neep?
Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne|Robert C. LeslieThe only odds is, that we ken that we dinna ken, and the neep-seed kens nothing at all aboot it.
David Elginbrod|George MacDonald
British Dictionary definitions for neep
Word Origin for neep
Old English nǣp, from Latin nāpus turnip
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