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The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.

A neap tide.

To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.

To ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail

(of a tide) Low; lowest; the ebb or lowest point of a tide.

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.

The swede (rutabaga), called "turnip" in Scotland.