ppl. a. [f. SNEAP v.] Of the wind, etc.: Checking growth; nipping, biting. Also in fig. context.
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., I. i. 100. Like an enuious sneaping Frost, That bites the first borne infants of the Spring. Ibid. (1611), Wint. T., I. ii. 13. No sneaping Winds at home.
1882. L. Campbell, J. C. Maxwell, 45. His activities were apt … to take odd shapes, as in a healthy plant under a sneaping wind.
1900. R. Warwick Bond, in Contemp. Rev., July, 119. Sheltered … from the sneaping winds of ill-usage or mischance.
