An instrument contrived for measuring the height of the tides.
·noun Measure; dimensions; estimate. II. Gauge ·vt To measure or determine with a gauge. III. Gaug...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
An instrument for measuring shot, wads, &c. For round shot there are two kinds, viz. the high gauge,...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·prep Violent confluence. II. Tide ·prep Time; period; season. III. Tide ·noun To pour a tide or f...
A regular periodical current of waters, setting alternately in a flux and reflux; it is owing to the...
·- A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half...
·- ·see under Gauge, ·noun. ...
·- A wall or bank to hold water back. II. Water gauge ·- An instrument for measuring or ascertainin...
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Wedge gage. ...
See anemometer ...
See salinometer. ...
A neat apparatus for ascertaining the height of the water in a steamer's boiler. ...
A graduated iron for sounding the pump-well. ...
Implies being farther from the point whence the wind blows, than another vessel in company. ...
A curved tube partly filled with mercury, to show the pressure of steam in an engine. ...
See pluviometer ...
The manometer of a steam-engine. ...
An instrument used by Drs. Hale and Desaguliers to investigate the depth of the sea, by the pressure...
Those roadsteads affected by several rivers or channels leading into them; as, for instance, Spithea...
·- Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th. ...
·- The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; — opposed to flood tide. ...
·adj Swung by the tide when at anchor; — opposed to wind-rode. ...
When there is no money in a man's pocket. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Christmas. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
The varying directions of the flow amongst shoals that are under water. (See current.) ...
Working double-tides is doing extra duty. (See work double-tides, to.) ...
The receding or running out of the sea, in contradistinction to flood. ...
When the water runs back from some obstacle to the free passage of the stream. ...
, or ebb of tide. This phrase, implying a previous flow of tide towards high-water, requires here ...
The flux of the tide, or the time the water continues rising. When the water begins to rise, it is c...
, or high water. Figuratively, a full purse. Constance, in Shakspeare's King John, uses the term h...
A tide running in the same direction as the wind, and forcing a ship to leeward of the line upon whi...
The periodical excess of the elevation and depression of the tide, which occurs when both the sun an...
A port which can only be entered at a certain time of flood. ...
A ball hoisted to denote when the depth of water permits vessels to enter a bar-harbour, or to take ...
A place where the tide runs strong. ...
A sort of basin worn in seaside rocks. ...
Those short ripplings which result from eddies, or the passage of the tide over uneven bottom; also ...
The situation of a vessel at anchor when she swings by the force of the tide. In opposition to wind-...
The mid-stream; or a passage or channel through which the tide sets, and runs strongly. ...
Opposed to cross-tide (which see). ...
The reverse of lee-tide. That which, running contrary to the direction of the wind, by setting again...
See weather-tide. ...
A ship riding across tide, with the wind in the direction of the tide, would tend to leeward of her ...
See across the tide. ...
See falling tide ...
An ebb. ...
Those showing their heads at half-ebb. (See tide.) ...
The falling tide. ...
, depends on several circumstances. First, the tide varies with the state of the moon, running stron...
The rising and falling of the waters. ...
Where it runs strongest, which in serpentine courses will be found in the hollow curves. ...
The change from ebb to flood, or the contrary. ...