neap

== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: nēp, IPA(key): /niːp/ Rhymes: -iːp === Etymology 1 === Perhaps of Scandinavian origin: compare dialectal Norwegian neip (“forked pole”). ==== Noun ==== neap (plural neaps) The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals. === Etymology 2 === From Middle English neep, from Old English nēp (“scant, lacking”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *nōpiz (“narrow”). Found especially in Old English nēpflōd (“neap tide”, literally “low tide”). Compare Norwegian dialectal nøpen (“scarce, scant, barely enough”). ==== Adjective ==== neap (not comparable) (of a tide) Low; lowest; the ebb or lowest point of a tide. Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is the least difference between high tide and low tide. ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== neap (third-person singular simple present neaps, present participle neaping, simple past and past participle neaped) (transitive) To trap (a ship) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides. (intransitive) To ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail. ==== Noun ==== neap (plural neaps) A neap tide. ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== neap (plural neaps) Alternative form of neep. === References === === Anagrams === -pnea, NEPA, Pena, NAPE, pena, pané, nape, pean, pane == Yola == === Noun === neap alternative form of neape GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY: Nipple is a diminutive of nape or neap. === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 59