Usually means: Lowest high tides of month.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (neap)

noun:  The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
adjective:  (of a tide) Low; lowest; the ebb or lowest point of a tide.
adjective:  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.
verb:  (transitive) To trap (a ship) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
verb:  (intransitive) To ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail.
noun:  A neap tide.
noun:  Alternative form of neep [(chiefly Scotland) The swede (rutabaga); turnip.]
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