单词 | tidal bore |
释义 | > as lemmastidal bore tidal bore n. a bore (bore n.3 2) occurring as a rising tide moves up a narrowing estuary. ΚΠ 1836 Monthly Mag. Sept. 306 Mr. Russell divided waves into four classes...The third species of waves are called breakers, surges, and tidal-bores. 1853 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit., & Art 1329/2 The phenomenon called the tidal bore is produced in two ways. 1893 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Daily Tribune 4 Oct. 4/3 The torrent is..as sure to become tremendous as that tidal bore which daily swells the Saguenay with its overwhelming flood. 1955 E. S. Wallace Great Reconnaissance xiii. 163 His three little clumsy caravels ran into the great tidal bore at the mouth of the Colorado River, which he described as a wall of water running with ‘a great rage into the land’. 1997 A. Taylor Lover of Grave iii. 57 ‘Jill dear,’ Charlotte Wemyss-Brown announced without preamble, her voice booming down the telephone line like a tidal bore roaring down an estuary. < as lemmas |
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