neap

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.