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Definition of Lee tide
1. Noun. A tide that runs in the same direction as the wind is blowing. "A leeward tide is dangerous for small boats"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lee Tide
Literary usage of Lee tide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1835)
"... sets to the south and comes from the Atlantic, on running through these islands
makes high water, whilst the ebb or lee tide sets to the north-west. ..."
2. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce, United States Naval Academy (1898)
"1, Plate B, represents a vessel riding out the lee tide in moderate weather, with
about thirty fathoms chain cable; square yards and her helm amidships. ..."
3. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"1, Plate 81, represents a vessel riding out the lee tide in moderate weather,
with about thirty fathoms chain cable: square ..."
4. Dictionnaire anglais-franca̧is: et français-anglais by Abel Boyer, Nicholas Salmon, Louis Francoi̧s Fain (1821)
"... leeward tide, lee tide- Marie 17111 porte au vent, weather tide. La maree
monte , the tide comes in , it is flowing •water, it is flood. ..."
5. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1884)
"1, Plate B, represents a vessel riding out the lee tide in moderate weather, with
about thirty fathoms chain cable; square yards and her helm amidships. ..."
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