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neap

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
  2. adjective Low; lowest; the ebb or lowest point of a tide.
  3. adjective 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.
  4. verb To trap (a ship) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
  5. verb To ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail.
  6. noun A neap tide.
  7. noun Alternative form of neep.

Similar words

neap tide tides tongue noddy yoke dogcart dog cart tandem pole horsecart

Often followed by

tides tide and tidal cycle process high to is

Word family

neap tide neaps

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