tide-rip

British  

noun

1. another word for riptide

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Example Sentences

How do these thin skin boats escape wreckage on a sea where tide-rip washes over the reefs all summer and ice hummocks sweep out from the shore in winter tempest?

From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

The tide-rip bounding—lifting—falling—racing over seas for the shores of Kamchatka never ran so mad and swift a course as the crazy craft there bouncing forward over the waves.

From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

You have never been so far with the sloop unless Jake was with you; and isn't there a nasty tide-rip somewhere?

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold

She pushed it into the water and sprang into it, pulling against the tide-rip like one possessed.

From My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia by Watson, Robert

I don't doubt Peter the Hermit had a voice like a bellbuoy in a tide-rip.

From The Lion of Petra by Mundy, Talbot