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tideway

or tide way

[tahyd-wey]
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noun

a channel in which a tidal current runs.

Origin of tideway

First recorded in 1620–30; tide1 + way1
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Related Words for tideway

medium, means, tunnel, route, carrier, avenue, gully, duct, strait, course, slit, pass, ditch, chase, canal, gouge, aqueduct, tube, passage, arroyo

Examples from the Web for tideway

Historical Examples of tideway

  • But that might have occurred through want of careful tending in a tideway.

  • Upon him drifted Mrs. Worthington, like a peony in the tideway.

    Love and Lucy

    Maurice Henry Hewlett

  • Then, as the fishermen say, the tideway is ‘all of a paffle.’

    A Floating Home

    Cyril Ionides

  • Its chief patrons were tideway clubs and the Kingston Rowing Club.

    Boating

    W. B. Woodgate

  • On the tideway in sculling matches, it is usual for pilots to conduct scullers.

    Boating

    W. B. Woodgate

British Dictionary definitions for tideway

tideway

noun

a strong tidal current or its channel, esp the tidal part of a river
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