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neap tide

NOUN
  1. a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon

How To Use neap tide In A Sentence

  • At neap tides, in stormy weather, I've known the water come just a couple of inches below my wall. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
  • On our west coast the neap tides ran as high as sixty feet. Chapter 15
  • In the absence of neap tide transect data this hypothesis cannot be tested directly, but three pieces of indirect evidence weigh against it as a complete explanation.
  • Now wait... but you continue, limping as you walk, while darkness filters into the saucer of land like a neap tide. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • The water is evened out all over the earth's oceans, producing neap tides.
  • On the other hand, when the sun is so placed as to give us a low tide while the moon is producing a high tide, the net result that we actually experience is merely the excess of the lunar tide over the solar tide; these are what we call neap tides. Time and Tide A Romance of the Moon
  • You need to pick the very smallest neap tides to fish these wrecks.
  • These events are called neap tides and they occur during the first and last quarter of the moon. Tide
  • Add in siege of Malta and Lepanto for neap tide of Islam in Europe. The crusader.
  • On neap tides it's usually slack enough to dive an hour before this and up to an hour after.
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