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
The Pelikan, being not under control, had been turned adrift with the object of fouling and seriously damaging the British vessels lying in the strong tideway.
From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
Nor do the leading amateur tideway clubs allow their juniors to race on them in club matches.
From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.
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