Little groups of sailors came swinging along and pushied their way noisily inside the gaudy joints. Sex everywhere: it was slopping over, a neap tide that swept the props from under the city.
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Neap
//niːp//
Synonyms for "neap" (67 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (20)
Related words (33)
Noun(1 words)
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Translations
16 translations across 6 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- най-нисък прилив adj (designating type of tide)
Finnish
1 entries- vajaa adj (designating type of tide)
German
2 entries- Nippflut adj (designating type of tide)
- Nipptide adj (designating type of tide)
Māori
4 entries- hāro adj (designating type of tide)
- kōwheuwheu adj (designating type of tide)
- kōwhiowhio adj (designating type of tide)
- kōwā adj (designating type of tide)
Spanish
1 entries- muerta (marea muerta) adj (designating type of tide)
Swedish
1 entries- nipflod adj (designating type of tide)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
At 8, being high water, hauld her bow close ashore, but Keept her stern afloat, because I was afraid of Neaping her, and yet it was necessary to lay the whole of her as near the ground as possible.
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It is well known that the spring tides happen at the change and full of the moon, at which time she is conjunction with and opposition to the sun. As these retire from their conjunction, the tides neap till about three days after the first quadrature, when the tides begin again to be more and more elevated, and arrive at their maximum about the third day after the opposition.
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Both […] swam not landward, but toward the horizon. Very good luck, for they entered a neap rushing headlong toward shore and into a river beyond.
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