free water
noun
1Water in a lake, river, or stretch of sea that is not confined or obstructed, e.g. by ice or the piers of a bridge; compare sense A. 9 and open water.
2Water that is not physically or chemically bound.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in John James (c1672–1746), architect, surveyor, and carpenter.
- double napoleon
- double negation
- double negative
- doubleness
- double obelisk
- double obelus
- double or quits (double or nothing)
- double-park
- double play
- double plugger
- Ticonderoga
- tic-tac
- tic-tac-toe
- t.i.d.
- tidal
- tidal basin
- tidal bore
- tidal farm
- tidally
- tidal wave
- tidbit
- tiddledywink
- tiddler
- tiddly
- tiddlywink