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Definition of Tideway
1. Noun. A channel in which a tidal current runs.
Definition of Tideway
1. n. Channel in which the tide sets.
Definition of Tideway
1. Noun. A channel in which the tide sets. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tideway
1. a tidal channel [n -WAYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tideway
Literary usage of Tideway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Engineers by Samuel Smiles (1874)
"... a proposed canal to join the Mersey at Hemp- stones, about eight miles below
Warrington Bridge, from whence there was a natural tideway to Liverpool, ..."
2. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"... accidental below '.he tideway of the rivers iu Lower Bengal. A summer visitant
in Afghanistan. ..."
3. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"IN A tideway* ... a tideway, that the after part of the keel being more deeply
immersed in the water, and presenting a broader surface to the action of the ..."
4. Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, Throughout by Joseph Priestley (1831)
"... There is no act relating to the river, and being in the tideway, it is
consequently free of toll. The chief uses to which this navigable estuary is put, ..."
5. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"In tideway now were seen : whereas, being changed, To swans, in tumbling watery
heaps, they ride. ..."
6. The Statutes at Large of South Carolina by South Carolina, Thomas Cooper, David James McCord (1840)
"... DOWN TO THE tideway, AS FAS AS THE PLACE COMMONLY CALLED THE NARROWS. WHEREAS,
several of the inhabitants in and about the township of Williamsburgh, ..."
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