Neaped: alternatives and connections

A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), d…

On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed…

That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.

An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowe…

A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…

An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces…

A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly calle…

The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide.

A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even o…

A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow;…

To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.

A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.

the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the f…

the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the f…

To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.

To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.

To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed; as, the ship grounded on the bar.

The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or t…