tideway

[ UK /tˈa‍ɪdwe‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a channel in which a tidal current runs
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  • There it stands, accordingly, full in the tideway; driven in, with hard taps, like some strong stake for the noose of a cable, the swirl of the current roundabout it. The Ambassadors
  • There may be any number of slips so arranged, and one pontoon may be made available for several cylinders at the deep water parts of neighboring repairing or building yards, in which case the recessed portion of the pontoon, when arranged around the cylinder, has stays or retaining bars fitted to prevent it leaving the cylinder when the swinging is taking place, such as might happen in a tideway. Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
  • In the historical tideway of the world modernization, each state inevitably to make choice on own route of agricultural development.
  • The boat had gone many yards beyond the place where Molly had seen the animal when there was a great swirl in the water beside the craft, followed by other swirls, which grew less and less as they led in a straight line up a broad tideway that opened into the upper end of the bay. Dick in the Everglades
  • Low over the water, close to the fringe of jungle the eagle flew, when a grey falcon dashed out, snatched from its talons the wriggling fish, and with one swoop disappeared under a yellow-flowered hibiscus bush overhanging the tideway. My Tropic Isle
  • We were after roach and bream, and bream fishing has become excellent in the tideway in recent years.
  • With 120 fish species, hundreds of thousands of birds, and a thriving fishing industry, the river now ranks among the cleanest metropolitan tideways in the world.
  • There, there!" said Nellie, pointing out some dark objects that could be seen tumbling about in the tideway some distance off the starboard quarter. Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
  • Its calls epitomise the atmosphere of the lonely marshes and tideways where it is found.
  • There were hills there, and a wonderful town upon the hills that followed the slopes down to the tideway; a magic town, built of white harbour walls and gleaming palaces beside the sea. Movie Night
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