Undeep a.

[OE. undéop (see UN-¹ 7 and DEEP a.), = WFris. ûn-, ondjip, Du. and Flem. ondiep, G. untief.] Not deep; shallow.

c. 897.  K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., lxv. 469. Nis ðæt rædlic ðing, ʓif swa hlutor wæter hlud and undiop tofloweð æfter feldum. Ibid., lxiii. 459. On ðæt undiope mod.

1154.  O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.), an. 1137. Sume hi diden in crucethus, ðæt is in an cæste þat was scort & nareu & undep.

1597.  A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 4/2. Smalle and vndiepe woundes.

1675.  Phil. Trans., vi. 3074. These Galleys are of great use both in Rivers and Un-deep Seas.