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Meanings of springtide in English

A greater than average tide occurring during the new and full moons.

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        Examples for "neap tide"
        Examples for "neap tide"
        1
        Unfortunately, the day proved very rough; and it was little better than a neap tide.
        Men of Invention and Industry
        2
        Just wander over the reef shelf during a neap tide and look under the rocks.
        The sex lives of cannibals: adrift in the equatorial pacific
        3
        It was almost a neap tide, though this was the fourth quarter of the moon.
        Fear nothing
        4
        Neap tide: the least rise and fall during the lunar month.
        The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Indepe...
        5
        The phenomenon was of daily occurrence until about the time of neap tides.
        The Romance of the Colorado River / The Story of its Discovery i...
        Usage of springtide in English
        1
        The bright springtide will soon restore all your former health and vigour.
        Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune / A Tale of t...
        2
        So he kissed it and felt perfumed by its strong springtide aroma.
        His Masterpiece
        3
        March had come, and the springtide was already budding out of doors.
        A Love Episode
        4
        For up at Ardmuirland we have to wait till May for settled springtide.
        Up in Ardmuirland
        5
        Ocean-Sea spread around, with that weed like a marsh at springtide.
        1492
        6
        Angelique smiled, as she stood there, dazzled, and as if bathed in the springtide.
        The Dream
        7
        Not a day of this lovely springtide should be wasted.
        For the Faith: A Story of the Young Pioneers of Reformation in O...
        8
        We will have a right merry time this joyous springtide.
        The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowd...
        9
        This, then, we did, after that first day's travel in the bright springtide sunshine.
        A Heroine of France: The Story of Joan of Arc
        10
        Well do I remember the rambles of that springtide.
        The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
        11
        What I prefer to remember is one day's trip in that springtide of prune bloom.
        The Native Son
        12
        It was a marvellous cortege, flowery like springtide, full of felicity, which moved every heart.
        Fruitfulness
        13
        O how pleasant it is, especially in springtide, to stray along the shores of the Guadalquivir.
        The Bible in Spain / Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonm...
        14
        Or, rather, I was with the Past,-inthe bowers of my springtide of life and hope!
        Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 08
        15
        For, by one of those freaks peculiar to the American springtide, the weather had again marvellously changed.
        Thankful Blossom
        16
        I think that was a springtide of civilisation, all the fine arts nourished at the same moment.'
        Venetia
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