| 单词 | dead neap |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdead neap a. Said of the lowest or stillest state of the tide, as dead low water, dead neap: cf. A. 31. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > neap > low water dead low water1561 dead neap1561 dead water1561 1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation ii. xviii. sig. G.ii Whiche the Mariners call nepe tydes..dead waters, or lowe fluddes. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. C The Ocean at his deadest ebbe returns to a full tide. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 17 A lowe water, a dead low water. 1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida Pref. sig. bv At high floud of Passion, even in the dead Ebb, and lowest Water-mark of the Scene. 1724 London Gaz. No. 6290/3 At dead Low-Water upon a Spring Tide. 1809 Rennell in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 99 403 (note) The..accident happened at dead neaps. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xxxii. 669 I crossed it at dead low-water. dead neap b. dead neap: see A. 27. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > neap > lowest dead neap1589 1589 R. Greene Ciceronis Amor 14 The lowest ebbe may haue his flow, and the deadest neepe his full tyde. 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie ii. viii. 123 High springs and dead Neapes. 1698 Spelman's Hist. Sacrilege 285 Such a dead Neipe (as they call it) as no Man living was known to have seen the like, the Sea fell so far back from the Land at Hunstanton. 1751 Anc. St. Navig. Lyn, etc. 24 Ships of considerable Burden could..come up to the Townside at Low-water, and even at dead Niepe. 1882 W. White Hist., Gazetteer & Directory Lincs. (ed. 4) 750 Ships of over 500 tons register can come to Sutton Bridge at dead neap. < as lemmas |
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