A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
1Unfortunately, the day proved very rough; and it was little better than a neap tide.
2Just wander over the reef shelf during a neap tide and look under the rocks.
3It was almost a neap tide, though this was the fourth quarter of the moon.
4Neap tide: the least rise and fall during the lunar month.
5The phenomenon was of daily occurrence until about the time of neap tides.
6On our west coast the neap tides ran as high as sixty feet.
7The water rises fifty feet with the spring tides, and twenty-five with neap tides.
8At neap tides the rock shows only a few black teeth with sea-weed gums above the surface.
9But 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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