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Definition of Tidal stream

1. Noun. A stream in which the effects of the tide extend far upstream.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tidal Stream

Literary usage of Tidal stream

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"Whirlpools in a tidal stream are not stationary, but travel along with the ... The tidal stream passing through the irregular channels between islands gives ..."

2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"18'J, which, as before stated, related to land upon an island in the Tennessee river, and not upon a tidal stream. The land in question was in the city of ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"... where the motion of the tidal wave is easterly, and the easterly tidal stream begins at high water, and the westerly tidal stream begins at low water. ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"... where the motion of the tidal wave is easterly, and the easterly tidal stream begins at high water, and the westerly tidal stream begins at low water. ..."

5. A Treatise on Navigation and Nautical Astronomy by William Robert Martin (1899)
"A knowledge of the direction in which the tidal stream will set a vessel is Tidal generally of more practical inportance in navigation than that of the time ..."

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