tide-rip

noun

1. another word for riptide

Example Sentences

"With a blame ugly tide-rip setting dead to windward across the mouth of it!"

From Project Gutenberg

Tess did not know how to work the boat ashore—indeed, caught as the craft was in the strong tide-rip, it would have taken considerable exertion with the oars to have driven it to land.

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You have never been so far with the sloop unless Jake was with you; and isn't there a nasty tide-rip somewhere?

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We dropped anchor in 7 fathoms, opposite a little beach and some coconut palms on the western shore, and next morning rowed to the village on the other side, meeting on the way a strong tide-rip, off the south-east point, that for long kept us from making any progress.

From Project Gutenberg

On its western side, a tide-rip—to which the chart ascribes a strength of 5 knots an hour at times—caught us, and we were in some danger of being carried inshore, but that the breeze was just strong enough to bear the schooner safely past.

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