A sandbank or tract of land alternately covered and exposed by the sea; a portion of an estuary admitting of being forded or crossed on foot at low…

(see quot. 1584).

Chiefly plural. Salt lands; in some parts spec., lands regularly covered by the tide, as distinguished from salt marshes. local.

plural. Low-lying grassland subject to flooding by spring tides. Also (in singular) attributive.

land(s) covered by the tide; tide-land spruce = Sitka spruce n. at Sitka, adj. n.compounds 2.

plural. ? Land covered at high tide by the sea.

In Law usually defined as the tract lying between ordinary high and low water mark, but see quots. Similarly in Geomorphology.

attributive. Designating or pertaining to regions situated on tide-water or affected by tides, esp. (also with capital initial) eastern Virginia…