tide race

British  

noun

1. a fast-running tidal current

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tide race

But beside scientific travel over a whole ocean, for example, muscular travel across a 20-mile tide race seemed to have shrunk to the proportions of a frog beside an eagle.

From Time Magazine Archive

She looked out at the little bay, at the narrow, wicked tide race, at the breakers beyond.

From The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Now and then, between the sobbing of Piper's Hole, the children caught the murmur of the tide race, half-a-mile off shore, slackening its note as it neared the time of high-water and its turning point.

From Major Vigoureux by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

It is pleasant to hear the rush, and the calm, of tide race, alternating.

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch

He walked into Newnham, and made his way to the ferry to watch the tide race up the river.

From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan

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