neap
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/niːp/
English
Definitions
noun
- The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
noun
- A neap tide.
verb
- To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
- To ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail
adjective
- (of a tide) Low; lowest; the ebb or lowest point of a tide.
- Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is the least difference between high tide and low tide.
noun
- The swede (rutabaga), called "turnip" in Scotland.