insteep
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈstiːp/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Verb
insteep (third-person singular simple present insteeps, present participle insteeping, simple past and past participle insteeped)
- (transitive) To steep or soak; drench.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
- York, all haggled over, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep'd, / And takes him by the beard.
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