neap

/neep/US // nip //UK // (niːp) //

旱季,晴天,冬眠,冬眠期

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : designating tides midway between spring tides that attain the least height.

n.名词 noun

But when there has been a neap-tide in his temper for any time, you're sure to find it followed by a flood with a vengeance.
It was a time of neap or spring tide, besides which the wind was in the right direction to make the water rise very high.
One of the vessels out of which ale was drunk was the Saxon nap, now the neap, or nip, out of which we drink Burton ale.
The spring tides fill it, but during the neap tides the salt water is kept stagnant behind the sea-banks, making a small lagoon.
About twelve feet was the greatest rise, which I apprehend would be diminished to eight, at the neap tides.