tide gage

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noun

a gauge for measuring the level of the tide: usually equipped with a marigraph.

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Origin of tide gage

First recorded in 1830–40

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Objectively, they are not just riding with the tide, but helping to guide its very direction.
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But then, once this swelling tide has receded, what happens?
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His ear, his brain, his muscles take on a new joyous activity, and the tide of life rises higher.
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They climbed another dune, and came upon the great gray sea at low tide.
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It seemed; it truly seemed as if the tide of blue, grey, scarlet specks was submerging the enemy's strongholds.
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The blood rushed in a hot tide into the girl's pale wet face, and yet she shivered as if an arrow had pierced her heart.
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We were mere atoms in a vast wave of horn and bone and flesh that bore us onward as the tide floats driftwood.
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