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dead water, dead-water
[dead a. 22.]
1. Water without any current; still water.
1601Holland Pliny I. 240 A standing poole or dead water. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 122 Its broad side lying to the Wind in dead water. 1874Burnand My Time xxii. 197 We pulled in..and made for a quiet nook in dead-water.
attrib.1792J. Phillips Hist. Inland Navig. Add. (1795) 29 The advantages of a dead-water navigation.
2. Naut. The eddy water just behind the stern of a ship under way.
1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ix. 42 Dead water is the Eddie water followes the sterne of the ship, not passing away so quickly as that slides by her sides. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 114 Vessels with a round buttock have but little or no dead-water.
3. The stillest state of the tide, when the rise and fall are at a minimum; the neap tide. (Cf. dead a. 27.)
1561Eden Arte Nauig. ii. xviii. 50 Whiche the Mariners call nepe tyde..dead waters, or lowe fluddes.
4. (See quot.)
1904Goodchild & Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 151/2 Dead water, water which does not come into contact with the effective heating surface of a boiler. |