neaps

Let's hope he pushes to the front for his Haggis, neaps, tatties and whisky.

Archive 2007-01-21 2007

Gaboon is a swift strong thing, and irregular, and has a rise of eight feet at the springs, two-and-a-half at the neaps.

Travels in West Africa 2003

Tidal current lag is usually greater during spring tides and smaller during neaps.

Cracking the Tidal Code 1999

Or it might flow in slowly during spring tides and not at all during neaps.

Cracking the Tidal Code 1999

Tidal current lag is usually greater during spring tides and smaller during neaps.

Cracking the Tidal Code 1999

Or it might flow in slowly during spring tides and not at all during neaps.

Cracking the Tidal Code 1999

The last of the flood, two days after the lowest neaps, and wind north by east; the current should be less than a knot and the eddy off Mengam non-existent.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

She must have entered the Otzumer Ee at high-water for shelter from the gale: a neat bit of work for a vessel of her size, as Davies says she draws nine-foot-ten, and there can't be more than twelve on the bar at high-water neaps.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

A sea-bred boy would not have stayed a day on Earraid; which is only what they call a tidal islet; and except in the bottom of the neaps, can be entered and left twice in every twenty-four hours, either dry-shod, or at the most by wading.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

A sea-bred boy would not have stayed a day on Earraid, which is only what they call a tidal islet, and, except, in the bottom of the neaps, can be entered and left twice in every twenty-four hours, either dry-shod, or, at the most, by wading.

The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty