slack water

Historical Examples of slack water

• No, sir; it's slack-water; or, rather, the ebb is just beginning to make.

  The Two Admirals

  J. Fenimore Cooper

• Every night the river falls from three to six inches, and there are long stretches of slack-water.

  Afloat on the Ohio

  Reuben Gold Thwaites

• Then we went down the river as far as the Elbow, where we waited in the slack-water to hail up-bound steamboats.

  Raftmates

  Kirk Munroe

• Glen had swum and fished in it, and boated on it, until he knew its every current and slack-water pool.

  Campmates

  Kirk Munroe

• They fish around the 'slack-water,' catching the last of the ebb and the first of the flow, and hence drift but little either way.

  The Hudson

  Wallace Bruce