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单词 tide head
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tide head
46. A tidal bore (bore n.3 2). Also more fully tide head. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > high wave caused by movement of tide > of unusual height
head1570
bore1601
eagre1610
mascaret1660
sea seiche1925
1570 R. Tarlton Disc. Fluds Bedford Shire (single sheet) At twelue a clock at night, It [sc. the rushing river] flowde with such a hed.
a1667 P. Mundy Trav. (1907) I. p. xix This bore or tide head comes sodainely many foote high like great rouling feathering Waves.
1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. lxxvi. 380 The tide [in the River Parrot] instead of rising gradually, flows in in a head.
1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 5 [The] river came down with a ‘head’ similar to the tidal phenomenon on the Severn.
1908 Nature Notes 19 209 A dead starfish is sometimes carried far up the Bay [sc. Morecambe Bay] by the tide head which in places resembles a mill race.
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