Neap

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  • adj. 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.
  • v. 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.
  • n. The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
  • n. A neap tide.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
  • adj. Low.
  • n. A neap tide.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • n. A neap tide.
  • n. The ebb or lowest point of a tide.
  • n. [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.”
  • n. See neep.
  • n. The tongue or pole of a wagon or ox-cart.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    high water    highwater    high tide   
    Cross Reference
    deep neap   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    low   
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