tideway
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tideway
Example Sentences
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The older men in the group were instrumental in reviving tideway rowing after the second world war and were a driving force behind initiatives for sculling, the discipline that uses two oars instead of one.
From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2010
The other war head they cut adrift in the tideway.
From Time Magazine Archive
The starting point for The Weir and the Island, now owned by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, was the view Kienbusch got of a weir made of burnt spruce, set in a tideway.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were the great officers' signals for their barges that the men blew, and the whistle signified that these lay at readiness in the tideway.
From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox
Twenty years before, the Danes had sailed in force up the Shannon and fortified the island at the head of the tideway which is now the oldest part of Limerick.
From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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