These events are called neap tides and they occur during the first and last quarter of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Tide] Reference
A little too softly, and then we get what are called neap-tides; but nearly always he is careful, because of the Eldest Magician. From Wordnik.com. [Just So Stories] Reference
These are known as "neap" tides, and, as the sun is acting in opposition to the moon, the height of high water is considerably less than at the time of spring tides. From Wordnik.com. [The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns] Reference
These tides are called neap tides. From Wordnik.com. [Atlantic Ocean] Reference
These are the spring and neap tides of their life. From Wordnik.com. [POEMS BY MICHAEL LONGLEY, 1963-1966] Reference
The range of spring tides is 2.1 m, of neap tides 0.6 m. From Wordnik.com. [Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania] Reference
Figure 3: Forces involved in the formation of a neap tide. From Wordnik.com. [Tide] Reference
On our west coast the neap tides ran as high as sixty feet. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 15] Reference
Tides vary with a spring range of 1. 7m and a neap range of 0. 6m. From Wordnik.com. [Shark Bay, Australia] Reference
But in the season of neap tides enough water is left for them to swim about within the semi-circle of stakes. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
These quarter moon tides are known as "neap tides" and have a much smaller range (lower highs and higher lows). From Wordnik.com. [Cracking the Tidal Code] Reference
Kentish oak, knowing that the combination of an easterly gale with neap tides sometimes produces an 'in-tide' at high-water, and seeing the. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
Tonight there was not enough water to fight the fires, and the firemen couldn't even get it from the river because there was a neap tide that night. From Wordnik.com. [Bottled Spider]
It is entered by a lock 875 ft. long and 100 ft. wide, with a depth of water on the sill of 46 ft. at ordinary spring, and 36 ft. at ordinary neap tides. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Peter chose a neap, but the north wind blowing straight down the open mouth of the Wash has pushed water higher up the salt marsh and is holding it there longer than usual. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
This was because the violent neap and spring tides at different times of the year affect the ocean swell and cause disturbances in the incoming and outgoing floods of water. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Middle Ages 500-1000] Reference
But when I made this observation it was neap tide. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference
We had a neap tide to-day and I had to hoosh four inches. From Wordnik.com. [Once a Week] Reference
Hither-side the flood o 'the year and yonder of the neap. From Wordnik.com. [Gloucester Moors and Other Poems] Reference
Height of neap and spring tides, at full and change of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789)] Reference
All kinds of waves possess more run at spring than at neap tides. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
When the Moon is at first or last quarter, smaller neap tides form. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
Hence the average spring tide is to the average neap as about 7 to 3. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
The spring tide is lunar plus solar; the neap tide is lunar minus solar. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
Hence the highest spring tide is to the lowest neap as 5·9 + 2·1 is to. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
So we have spring tides regularly once a fortnight, with neap tides in between. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
"You can see it at low neap tides, but at this time of year it's always covered.". From Wordnik.com. [The Saint in Action]
When they act in opposition to each other, as at the moon's quarter, there occurs a very low or neap-tide. From Wordnik.com. [The Ocean and its Wonders] Reference
Now, the fisherman walked just about the neap-tide, high-water mark, sometimes above it and sometimes below. From Wordnik.com. [John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman] Reference
This difficulty of watering only arose from the lowness of the tides (neap) and our ignorance of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1] Reference
But the tides being neap, the lower parts, particularly where the beams rested on the rock, could not now be seen. From Wordnik.com. [Records of a Family of Engineers] Reference
When the two conspire, they cause a spring tide; when the solar and lunar tides are opposed, we have the neap tide. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Heavens] Reference
The other man's footprints, on the other hand, reach only to the neap-tide, high-water mark, where they end abruptly. From Wordnik.com. [John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman] Reference
When the two agree, we get a spring tide of four feet; when they oppose each other, we get a neap tide of only two feet. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilot] Reference
March in the year, or the neap-tides, or the harvest moon, but, strange to say, at each visit takes the country by surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Love Me Little, Love Me Long] Reference
Mean high water is, strictly speaking, the average height of all high waters, spring and neap, as ascertained over a long period. From Wordnik.com. [The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns] Reference
From the observed heights of spring and neap tides he determined the lunar tide, and thence made an estimate of the mass of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
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