snape

verb4

1. •
   To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.

   • It had to be accurately cut and trimmed, and its upper edge scored to suit the snaping of every beam end. — 2000
2. •
   (dialect, no longer used) To chide, to rebuke, to reprimand.

   • He saw nothing, heard nothing, rushed on, he knew not whither, snaping, and uttering hoarse cries. — 1871
3. •
   (dialect, no longer used) Synonym of sneap (“to check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand”).

   • The colnel (sic) I dont think like him much. I undirstand (sic) he was always snaping him. — 1861
4. •
   (dialect, no longer used) To check or curtail (the growth of something); also, to check or curtail the growth of (a plant, etc.).