tide-ripn.
1. A commotion of the sea caused by opposing currents, or by a rapid current passing over an uneven bottom.
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1830 N. S. Wheaton Jrnl. 518 We are now on George's Bank, and surrounded with tide-rips, having precisely the appearance of those at the mouth of a river.
1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) §752 Tide-rips present their most imposing aspect in the equatorial regions.
1875 R. F. Burton Two Trips Gorilla Land (1876) I. 2 When the current, setting to the north-west, meets a strong sea-breeze from the west, there is a criss-cross, a tide-rip.
2. A tidal wave or current.
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1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 380/1 It was known as Fort Comosun or ‘Rush of Waters’ after the tide-rip that races up the Victoria arm.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 4 Feb. 5/2 A tidal wave—a ‘tide rip’, as the sailors call it, because they can see it approaching like a ripple on a smooth sea—is a disturbance on the surface of the ocean depending entirely on the influence of the moon.
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