day-peep

See also: daypeep

English

Noun

day-peep (uncountable)

1. The dawn.
   • 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XVIII, page 228:

     Set off by daypeep to the fort, and see Proctor yourself.

References

• “day-peep”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.