noun. The tongue or pole of a wagon or ox-cart.

noun. See neep.

Low; lowest: applied to those tides which, being half-way between spring tides, have the least difference of height between flood and ebb. See tide.

noun. A neap tide.

noun. The ebb or lowest point of a tide.

noun. [In the following passage from “English Gilds” neep sesons is defined by the editor as “the autumn;” by Skeat as “the neap-tide seasons, when boats cannot come to the quay.”

noun. The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.

noun. A neap tide.

adjective. Low.

adjective. the lowest tides of the lunar month, which occur in the second and fourth quarters of the moon; -- opposed to spring tides.

noun. The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.

noun. A neap tide.

adjective. Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide.

verb. To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.

noun. a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon

"On the other hand, when the sun is so placed as to give us a low tide while the moon is producing a high tide, the net result that we actually experience is merely the excess of the lunar tide over the solar tide; these are what we call neap tides."

deep neap  

high tide  high water  highwater  

anarch  breath-stealing  ever-advancing  ever-rising  extra-high  

couchant  crouched  dead low water  debased  depressed