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ebb and flow
1. The reflux of the tide; the return of tide-water towards the sea. Often in phrase ebb and flow; also tide of ebb, half-quarter-ebb.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > change in level of water > [noun] > subsiding or receding
ebba1000
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > ebbing or flowing out
ebba1000
ebbingc1000
fresha1552
fall1571
vale-water1589
refloat1594
reflow1610
downtide1668
recurrency1724
out1756
retroposition1836
ebb-tide1837
recurrence1857
a1000 Battle of Maldon 65 Þar com flowende flod æfter ebban.
a1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1114 On þis geare wæs swa mycel ebba.
1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Langtoft (1810) 106 Þe bodies..wer costen vpon þe sond, After an ebbe of þe flode.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 135 Ebbe of the see, refluxus, salaria.
1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation ii. xviii. sig. G.ii Whiche the Mariners call nepe tydes, lowe ebbes..or lowe fluddes.
1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars i. xxxix. 41 As Seuerne lately in her ebbs that sanke.
1665 R. Moray in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 54 The Flood runs East..and the Ebb West.
1763 W. Borlase in Philos. Trans. 1752 (Royal Soc.) 52 418 The sea advancing the first time to a quarter ebb; but the second advance was but as far as the sea reaches at half ebb.
1831 H. T. De la Beche Geol. Man. ii. 68 During the freshets the ebb and flow are little felt.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xxvii. 184 We..made sail, stemming the last of the ebb.
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to ebb and flow
a. intransitive. To flow back or recede, as the water of the sea or a tidal river: frequent in phrase, to ebb and flow. Also with away, down, off, out.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > change in level of water > [verb (intransitive)] > recede or subside
ebbOE
wanec1290
withdrawa1300
run?a1425
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > types of tide [verb (intransitive)] > ebb
falleOE
ebbOE
wanec1290
reflow1429
to go out1595
to run out1608
refloat1632
OE Genesis 1413 Lago ebbade, sweart under swegle.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 161 Þe sæ floweð and ebbeð.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1216 The se, aftir the tydes certayn, Ebbes and flowes.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 425 The se wes ebbit [1489 Adv. ebbyt] sa.
a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 223 The see wase Ebbyd.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 214 The Sea will ebb and flow . View more context for this quotation
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. vi. 86 In some narrow seas..the sea seven times a day ebbs and flowes.
1721 J. Perry Acct. Stopping Daggenham Breach 121 Ships..may lie afloat, and not have the Water ebb'd away from them.
1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage v. 59 The water might ebb another fathom.
1855 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (1860) ix. §429 The tides ebbed and flowed in it.
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ebb and flow
4. The incoming or rise of the tide. Opposed to ebb; often in phrase ebb and flow; see ebb n. 1.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [noun] > rise and fall
ebb and flow1583
fluctuation1646
fluctuancy1659
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > rising or flowing in flood
risinga1387
acker1440
increase1555
swelling1557
flow1583
tiding1593
float1594
afflux1603
flux1612
flowing1642
flood-tide1719
1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 9 The greatest flowe hath the soonest ebbe.
1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres i. cxvi. sig. F4v The Ocean all at discord with his boundes, Reiterates his strange vntimely floes.
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. ii. viii. 177 A..sea hauing many ebbes, and flowes.
1794 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1986) II. 743 Oceans ebb, and oceans flow.
1812 R. Southey Omniana I. lxxi. 139 The flow drove him upon shore.
1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. vi. 177 The Thames tide, with its tossing wherries at the flow, and stranded barges at ebb.
figurative.1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 38 As high a flow as the ridge of the gallowes. View more context for this quotation1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xi. sig. I6v Wee know not in the flowes of our contentednesse, what wee our selues are.1758 S. Haward Serm. Introd. 9 The flows of affliction.1865 F. W. Farrar Chapters on Lang. 270 Great ebbs and flows in the tide of Jewish thought.1871 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. July 43 Her ebbs and flows of passion.
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