tide-rip

noun

1. See riptide
   another word for riptide

Example Sentences

And such a tide-rip thundered along the rocks as shook the earth and set the ship trembling.

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In the straits between the different Aleutian Islands runs a terrific tide-rip.

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

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But the edge of the tide rip was a long way off, and he was growing tired already.

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And where such immense bodies of water, flowing swiftly, clashed together, a terrible tide-rip was produced.

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