heaps

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According to Mr. Fowler's observations in the basin, it was high water there eight hours after the moon's passage; and the rise at the neaps and springs appeared to be from eight to twelve feet.

From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 by Flinders, Matthew

It was now Thursday and the day after next, or more exactly during the early morning of Friday, they would see the middle of the neaps.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The tide is very irregular in Port Darwin, rising at springs 24 feet, and at neaps sometimes only two; its rate being from one and a half to three knots.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea by Stokes, John Lort

Now the actual tide observed in mid-Atlantic is at the springs about four feet, at the neaps about two.

From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

I am not able to speak very accurately of the rise in the tide; but it may be reckoned at twelve or fourteen feet at the neaps, and from seventeen to eighteen at the springs.

From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 by Flinders, Matthew