ope

adjective, verb (used with or without object), oped, op·ing. Literary.

1. open.

verb, adjective

1. an archaic or poetic word for open

adj.short for open (adj.), early 13c. “not closed; not hidden;” originally as awake is from awaken, etc. As a verb from mid-15c. Middle English had ope-head “bare-headed” (c.1300).