Tideway: alternatives and connections

A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as…

Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the wa…

Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or a…

An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement excep…

The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.

Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time.

An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gate…

A boat driven by the tide.

A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly calle…

The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on…

The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide.

A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.

A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name b…

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the…

A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow;…

To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.

the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the f…

the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the f…