A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
1The phenomenon was of daily occurrence until about the time of neap tides.
2Height of neap and spring tides, at full and change of the moon.
3On our west coast the neap tides ran as high as sixty feet.
4It was neap-tide, too, and therefore nothing could be done among the rocks.
5Or maybe he doesn't know a spring tide from a neap.
6The water rises fifty feet with the spring tides, and twenty-five with neap tides.
7Unfortunately, the day proved very rough; and it was little better than a neap tide.
8Just wander over the reef shelf during a neap tide and look under the rocks.
9It was almost a neap tide, though this was the fourth quarter of the moon.
10At neap tides the rock shows only a few black teeth with sea-weed gums above the surface.
11The spring tides were going by without floating him off, and the neap might soon come which could not.
12The other man's footprints, on the other hand, reach only to the neap-tide, high-water mark, where they end abruptly.
13This difficulty of watering only arose from the lowness of the tides (neap) and our ignorance of the country.
14But in the season of neap tides enough water is left for them to swim about within the semi-circle of stakes.
15But the tides being neap, the lower parts, particularly where the beams rested on the rock, could not now be seen.
16Mean high water is, strictly speaking, the average height of all high waters, spring and neap, as ascertained over a long period.