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 Beach, Rex Ellingwood
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
And such a tide-rip thundered along the rocks as shook the earth and set the ship trembling.
From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
And where such immense bodies of water, flowing swiftly, clashed together, a terrible tide-rip was produced.
From Tales of the Fish Patrol by Varian, George
At last he was stemming the strong tide-rip off Brimstone Point.
From Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good by Tolman, Albert Walter
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