tide mill

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noun

a mill operated by the tidal movement of water.

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Origin of tide mill

First recorded in 1630–40

Words nearby tide mill

tide in the affairs of men, There is a, tideland, tideline, tide lock, tidemark, tide mill, tide over, tide pool, tide race, tiderip, tides

How to use tide mill in a sentence

But the tide was turning on this issue, an email from another constituent made clear.
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The “doctorate” Duke claims is from an anti-Semitic Ukranian “diploma mill” as described by the State Department.
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Instead of decorating every face on the street, Google Glass hit a contrarian rip tide.
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The language school did not focus on providing instruction but instead was a visa mill.
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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 men we had known and trails we had followed furnished us plenty of grist for the conversational mill.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
His ear, his brain, his muscles take on a new joyous activity, and the tide of life rises higher.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Sounds rotten, but that's their style; and you've been through the mill at home enough to know what it is to be knifed socially.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Along in the afternoon Porter's force was located near Moore's Mill, about four miles distant.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
They climbed another dune, and came upon the great gray sea at low tide.
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