neap

• On Tuesday, the day before yesterday, the weather was just about what it is today, a real spring day, and it was a neap-tide Is that important At the neap-tide, that is to say during the period when the ebb and flow of the tides is slight, nobody goes out for mussels or oysters. —  Maigret Goes to School - Georges Simenon - 72
• The discovery that the spring-neap tidal cycle exerts such a strong influence on an ice stream tens of kilometres away is a total surprise. —  RealClimate
• It carries the ordinary flood tide into the Highlands, but with much of a down flow of water, only up to them; though with an extraordinary flow down and a dead neap-tide, the water becomes brackish near the city. —  Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
• Though the first movement of popular feeling may be one of wrathful injustice, yet, when the ebb of depression has once fairly run out, and confidence begins to set back, hiding again that muddy bed of human nature which such neap-tides are apt to lay bare, there is a kindly instinct which leads all generous minds to seek every possible ground of extenuation, to look for excuses in misfortune rather than incapacity, and to allow personal gallantry to make up, as far as may be, for want of military genius. —  The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
• This difficulty of watering only arose from the lowness of the tides (neap) and our ignorance of the country. —  Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1

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