insteep

verb

insteep

verb

/ɪnˈstiːp/

Etymology From in- + steep.

1

To steep or soak; drench.

  • York, all haggled over, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep'd, / And takes him by the beard.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]:

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