tide-rip
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A week later, after an uneventful voyage across a sea of glass, The Bedford Castle made up through a swirling tide-rip and into the fog- bound harbor of Unalaska.
From The Silver Horde by Rex Ellingwood Beach
Plunging our paddles into the water, we sent our bamboo craft along till we were in absolute safety as far as the tide-rip was concerned.
From Yorke The Adventurer by Louis Becke
Meantime, one moment turning to mark "Rover" fighting the tide-rip, and the next to see Don Benito approaching, he continued walking the poop.
From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
The waves were choppy, and threw up small heads of foam like the swirl of cross-currents in a tide-rip.
From Plotting in Pirate Seas by C. A. (Charles A.) Federer
Tess did not know how to work the boat ashore—indeed, caught as the craft was in the strong tide-rip, it would have taken considerable exertion with the oars to have driven it to land.
From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Grace Brooks Hill
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