tideway
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tideway
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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 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 other war head they cut adrift in the tideway.
From Time Magazine Archive
The separate peaks rise tumultuously, like the rip of seas in a tideway, without connection, solitary, sombre.
From The Westerners by Stewart Edward White
University men and tideway amateurs, also professionals so far as we can gather, seem not to have heard of, or at least not to have heeded, the experiment.
From Boating by W. B. Woodgate
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