neap

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To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move from due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides
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
The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals
{a} low, decreasing, scanty, deficient
A neap tide
a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon
{i} low tide
{s} of a low tide
Low
neap tide
The tide which occurs when the Moon is in its first and third quarter; the effects of the Sun and Moon being partially cancelled out this type of tide is of minimum range
neap tides
plural form of neap tide
neap tide
a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon
neap tide
n. A tide that occurs when the difference between high and low tide is least; the lowest level of high tide. Neap tide comes twice a month, in the first and third quarters of the moon. a very small rise and fall of the level of the sea at the times of the first and third quarters of the moon spring tide
neaps
plural of neap
neaps
third-person singular of neap
neap

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    Etymology

    () Perhaps of Scandinavian origin: compare dialectal Norwegian neip (“forked pole”).
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