(n.) The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
(a.) Low.
(n.) A neap tide.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tidal influence was most obvious during spring tides; and for the effect of bathers, during neap tides.
(2) Behavioral and developmental rhythms of some species inhabiting the intertidal zone of sea-coasts as well as some species of tropical lakes and forests have adapted to environmental cycles which are determined by the moon (the semi-diurnal tides, the semi-monthly cycle of springs and neaps, and the changes in moon-light during the night).
(3) So far there is no evidence that synchronization is achieved by absolute differences between tidal variables at neap and spring tides.
Sneap
Definition:
(v. t.) To check; to reprimand; to rebuke; to chide.