tideway
or tide way
a channel in which a tidal current runs.
Origin of tideway
1Words Nearby tideway
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
How to use tideway in a sentence
It made one think of whales making room in a narrow tideway for an impudent black minnow to pass.
The Glory of The Coming | Irvin S. CobbThe place was a rocky point of land jutting forth into a reef-strewn tideway.
The Doomsman | Van Tassel SutphenThe galley at last drew up under the counter of a large ship of foreign rig, lying in the tideway off Tilbury Hope.
The Great Mogul | Louis TracyHow shall a loving wife express warmth of sentiment elsewhere, without the one beam too much, that plunges her on a tideway?
The Amazing Marriage, Complete | George MeredithThrough artificial outlets it tumbles into the tideway, and becomes at a bound subject to the ebb and flow of the Solent.
British Dictionary definitions for tideway
/ (ˈtaɪdˌweɪ) /
a strong tidal current or its channel, esp the tidal part of a river
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse