neap

The tongue or pole of a wagon or ox-cart.

See neep.

Low; lowest: applied to those tides which, being half-way between spring tides, have the least difference of height between flood and ebb. See tide.

A neap tide.

The ebb or lowest point of a tide.

[In the following passage from “English Gilds” neep sesons is defined by the editor as “the autumn;” by Skeat as “the neap-tide seasons, when boats cannot come to the quay.”

The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.

A neap tide.

Low.

the lowest tides of the lunar month, which occur in the second and fourth quarters of the moon; — opposed to spring tides.