tide or tidal harbour

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• harbour

  A general name given to any safe sea-port. The qualities requisite in a good harbour are, that it sh...

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• Tide

  ·prep Violent confluence. II. Tide ·prep Time; period; season. III. Tide ·noun To pour a tide or f...

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• tide

  A regular periodical current of waters, setting alternately in a flux and reflux; it is owing to the...

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• tide and half-tide

  Those roadsteads affected by several rivers or channels leading into them; as, for instance, Spithea...

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• Harbour Lane

  South out of Upper Thames Street to the Thames, west of Grantham's lane in the parish of St. Martin ...

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• bank-harbour

  That which is protected from the violence of the sea by banks of mud, gravel, sand, shingle, or silt...

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• blind-harbour

  One, the entrance of which is so shut in as not readily to be perceived. ...

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• close harbour

  That is one gained by labour from the element, formed by encircling a portion of water with walls an...

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• harbour-dues

  See port-charges. ...

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• harbour-gaskets

  Broad, but short and well-blacked gaskets, placed at equal distances on the yard, for showing off a ...

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• harbour-guards

  Men detached from the ordinary, as a working party. ...

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• harbour-log

  That part of the log-book which consists solely of remarks, and relates only to transactions while t...

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• harbour-master

  An officer appointed to inspect the moorings, and to see that the ships are properly berthed, and th...

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• harbour-reach

  The reach or stretch of a winding river which leads direct to the harbour. ...

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• harbour-watch

  A division or subdivision of the watch kept on night-duty, when the ship rides at single anchor, to ...

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• hidden harbour

  That of which the outer points so overlap as to cause the coast to appear to be continuous. ...

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• island harbour

  That which is protected from the violence of the sea by one or more islands or islets screening its ...

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• river-harbour

  That which is situated in the channel of a river, especially such as are at the embouchure with a ba...

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• shoaled-harbour

  That which is secured from the violence of the sea, by banks, bars, or shoals to sea-ward. ...

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• tidal harbour

  A port which can only be entered at a certain time of flood. ...

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• Bartholomew tide

  ·- Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th. ...

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• Ebb tide

  ·- The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; — opposed to flood tide. ...

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• Tide-rode

  ·adj Swung by the tide when at anchor; — opposed to wind-rode. ...

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• low tide

  When there is no money in a man's pocket. ...

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• yule-tide

  Christmas. N. ...

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• cross-tide

  The varying directions of the flow amongst shoals that are under water. (See current.) ...

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• double-tide

  Working double-tides is doing extra duty. (See work double-tides, to.) ...

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• ebb-tide

  The receding or running out of the sea, in contradistinction to flood. ...

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• eddy-tide

  When the water runs back from some obstacle to the free passage of the stream. ...

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• falling tide

  , or ebb of tide. This phrase, implying a previous flow of tide towards high-water, requires here ...

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• flood-tide

  The flux of the tide, or the time the water continues rising. When the water begins to rise, it is c...

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• high tide

  , or high water. Figuratively, a full purse. Constance, in Shakspeare's King John, uses the term h...

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• lee-tide

  A tide running in the same direction as the wind, and forcing a ship to leeward of the line upon whi...

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• spring-tide

  The periodical excess of the elevation and depression of the tide, which occurs when both the sun an...

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• tide-ball

  A ball hoisted to denote when the depth of water permits vessels to enter a bar-harbour, or to take ...

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• tide-gate

  A place where the tide runs strong. ...

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• tide-gauge

  An instrument contrived for measuring the height of the tides. ...

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• tide-pool

  A sort of basin worn in seaside rocks. ...

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• tide-rip

  Those short ripplings which result from eddies, or the passage of the tide over uneven bottom; also ...

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• tide-rode

  The situation of a vessel at anchor when she swings by the force of the tide. In opposition to wind-...

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• tide-way

  The mid-stream; or a passage or channel through which the tide sets, and runs strongly. ...

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• true tide

  Opposed to cross-tide (which see). ...

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• weather-tide

  The reverse of lee-tide. That which, running contrary to the direction of the wind, by setting again...

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• windward tide

  See weather-tide. ...

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• Cole-Harbour Lane

  1) A lane leading south out of Upper Thames Street at No. 92 to the Thames at Cole Harbour Stairs, i...

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• Cole Harbour Stairs

  At the south end of Coleharbour in Dowgate Ward (Horwood, 1799-Elmes, 1831). The wharf seems to hav...

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• macquarie harbour vine

  See grape, macquarie harbour ...

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• grape, macquarie harbour

  or Macquarie Harbour Vine (q.v.), n. name given to the climbing shrub Muehlenbeckia adpressra, Meis...

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• macquarie harbour grape

  or Macquarie Harbour Vine, n. the Tasmanian name for Muhlenbeckiaadpressa, Meissn. N.O. Polygonacea...

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• vine, macquarie harbour

  or Macquarie Harbour Grape (q.v.). Same as Native Ivy. See Ivy. 1891. `Chambers' Encyclopaedia,' s...

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• harbour-duty men

  Riggers, leading men, and others, ordered to perform the dockyard or port duties, too often superann...

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• across the tide

  A ship riding across tide, with the wind in the direction of the tide, would tend to leeward of her ...

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• athwart the tide

  See across the tide. ...

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• ebb of tide

  See falling tide ...

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• fall of tide

  An ebb. ...

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• half-tide rocks

  Those showing their heads at half-ebb. (See tide.) ...

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• tide, ebb of

  The falling tide. ...

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• velocity of tide or current

  , depends on several circumstances. First, the tide varies with the state of the moon, running stron...

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• bar of a harbour

  See bar of a port ...

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• fluctuation of the tide

  The rising and falling of the waters. ...

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• strength of the tide

  Where it runs strongest, which in serpentine courses will be found in the hollow curves. ...

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• turn of the tide

  The change from ebb to flood, or the contrary. ...

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• luff into a harbour, to

  To sail into it, shooting head to wind, gradually. A ship is accordingly said to spring her luff whe...

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• thwart-marks, to a harbour

  Two objects on the land, which, brought into line with each other, mark the safe course between shoa...

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