tide-gauge
a gauge used to measure extremes or the present level of tidal movement
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How to use tide-gauge in a sentence
The most chronic sufferer throughout the vicissitudes of temperature was the clock belonging to Bage's tide-gauge.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonAmongst the cases which were landed was one containing the recording apparatus for the tide-gauge.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonSandell and I now made a start at erecting the tide-gauge, and after the lapse of five days got the instrument into position.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonThe tide-gauge clock broke down towards the end of the month, and though I tried for days to get it going I was not successful.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonThalassog′raphy, the science of the ocean, oceanography; Thalassom′eter, a tide-gauge.
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