tide race

British  

noun

1. a fast-running tidal current

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Example Sentences

I’m noticing once again the singular things I noticed as a boy: the hidden springs, the sound of silence, nap of tablecloths, sea taste of iodine, the scents of clothes, raw grain of wood, a scrambling interface of ebbing tide and incoming tide race.

From The New Yorker

Steering wide of Harbor Rocks, bucking the sea wind head- on at seven knots, he ran with the tide race pushing hard behind him and fell in with the Kasilof, the Antarctic, and the Providence, all of which were making for Ship Channel, too: half the fleet was headed there.

From Literature

We gave the South a wider berth, for there the tide race roared;But every tack we made we brought the North Head close aboard:So's we saw the cliffs and houses, and the breakers running high,And the coastguard in his garden, with his glass against his eye.

From The Guardian

Orkney's desirability as a marine energy centre is shown every day at Emec's tidal testing range at Fall of Warness, a tide race off the island of Eday.

From The Guardian

However, we tried hard for about six hours, during four of which I hardly hoped to succeed, for it blew strong, and the tide race was dangerous: but before evening we gained the sheltered part of Trefusis Bay.

From Project Gutenberg