tideway

or tide way

[ tahyd-wey ]

noun

1. a channel in which a tidal current runs.

tideway

/ ˈtaɪdˌweɪ /

noun

1. a strong tidal current or its channel, esp the tidal part of a river

Word History and Origins

Origin of tideway¹

First recorded in 1620–30; tide ¹ + way ¹

Example Sentences

It made one think of whales making room in a narrow tideway for an impudent black minnow to pass.

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The place was a rocky point of land jutting forth into a reef-strewn tideway.

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The galley at last drew up under the counter of a large ship of foreign rig, lying in the tideway off Tilbury Hope.

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How shall a loving wife express warmth of sentiment elsewhere, without the one beam too much, that plunges her on a tideway?

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Through artificial outlets it tumbles into the tideway, and becomes at a bound subject to the ebb and flow of the Solent.

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