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(n) : the tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals
(adj) : designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide
"1934: 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. -- Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer"
(v) : to trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move from due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides
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website design charlotte.
Definition of neap:

(n) : the tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals
(adj) : designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide
"1934: 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. -- Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer"
(v) : to trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move from due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides
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