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单词 tideway
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tidewayn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtideway.
A channel in which a tidal current runs; also the tidal part of a river; transferred a strong current running in such a channel; = tide-gate n.1
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun]
meatusc1425
channel1427
canal1542
tide-gate1589
euripe1600
Euripus1601
interflow1610
sleeve1614
tides-way1627
gat1723
tideway1798
lane1835
seaway1866
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. i. 1 You may hale in a ship..out of the tides way.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §157 A vessel lies..at moorings, though in a Tide's-way.]
1798 Hull Advertiser 4 Aug. 2/4 A gunboat..being very manageable in a strong tideway.
1811 J. Taylor Remarks Present State Devon in T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (new ed.) p. xxxii It..serves to convey shipping from the Tideway.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxvii. 359 A moment's check would plunge the whole concern into the rapid tide-way.
1875 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. (ed. 2) v. 153 Sounding in a tide-way it may be necessary to anchor the boat.
figurative.a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) iii. 169 The position of his shop in the very tideway of all our business made it the natural resort of..all sorts of literary idlers.1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. iv. 74 A lead that..would roll him on a good tideway strong in his own passion and his lady's up against the last defences.1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 823/1 Henry VIII.'s palace has not been forever a barber's shop, or the Strand a tide-way of shop-keeping.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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