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.