A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
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Examples for "neap "
Examples for "neap "
1 The phenomenon was of daily occurrence until about the time of neap tides.
2 Height of neap and spring tides, at full and change of the moon.
3 On our west coast the neap tides ran as high as sixty feet.
4 It was neap -tide , too, and therefore nothing could be done among the rocks.
5 Or maybe he doesn't know a spring tide from a neap .
1 Unfortunately, the day proved very rough; and it was little better than a neap tide .
2 Just wander over the reef shelf during a neap tide and look under the rocks.
3 It was almost a neap tide , though this was the fourth quarter of the moon.
4 Neap tide : the least rise and fall during the lunar month.
5 The phenomenon was of daily occurrence until about the time of neap tides .
6 On our west coast the neap tides ran as high as sixty feet.
7 The water rises fifty feet with the spring tides, and twenty-five with neap tides .
8 At neap tides the rock shows only a few black teeth with sea-weed gums above the surface.
9 But in the season of neap tides enough water is left for them to swim about within the semi-circle of stakes.
10 'But what makes the neap tides ? '
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