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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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Way
·noun Progress; as, a ship has way. II. Way ·adv <<Away>>. III. Way ·noun Sphere or scope of obser...

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way
Is sometimes the same as the ship's rake or run, forward or backward, but is most commonly understoo...

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

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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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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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Four-way
·adj Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve. ...

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Three-way
·adj Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve. ...

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Two-way
·add. ·adj Serving to connect at will one pipe or channel with either of two others; as, a two-way c...

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Water way
·- ·same·as Water course. ...

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Way shaft
·- A rock shaft. II. Way shaft ·- An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. ...

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Way-going
·adj Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away. ...

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Way-goose
·noun ·see Wayz-goose, ·noun, 2. ...

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Way-wise
·adj Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled. ...

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way-bill
A list of the passengers in a stage-coach, railroad car, steamboat, or other public conveyance. ...

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carpet-way
a green way, a way on the turf. S. ...

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gainest-way
the nearest way. N. ...

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leech-way
the path in which the dead are carried to be buried. Exm. ...

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spur-way
a bridle-way through any ground, a passage for a horse by right of custom. S. ...

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way-bit
(or rather a WEE-BIT), a little piece ; a mile and a wee -bit, or way-bit. Yorksh. WEE is Scotch for...

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way-bread
plantain ; from the Saxon WJEG !!!BR.EDE, so called, because growing every where in streets and ways...

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whapple-way
a bridle-way, or road where only a horse can pass. S. ...

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companion-way
The staircase, porch, or berthing of the ladder-way to the cabin. ...

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covered way
In fortification, a space running along the outside of the ditch for the convenient passage of troop...

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covert-way
See covered way. ...

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drift-way
Synonymous with lee-way. ...

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fair-way
The navigable channel of a harbour for ships passing up or down; so that if any vessels are anchored...

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freshen way
When the ship feels the increasing influence of a breeze. Also, when a man quickens his pace. ...

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fresh way
Increased speed through the water; a ship is said to "gather fresh way" when she has tacked, or hove...

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give way
The order to a boat's crew to renew rowing, or to increase their exertions if they were already rowi...

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head-way
A ship is said to gather head-way when she passes any object thrown overboard at the bow, and it pas...

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lee-way
What a vessel loses by drifting to leeward in her course. When she is sailing close-hauled in a smoo...

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milky way
See via lactea. ...

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right way
When the ship's head casts in the desired direction. Also, when she swings clear at single anchor. ...

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sea-way
The progress of a ship through the waves. Also, said when a vessel is in an open place where the sea...

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steerage-way
When a vessel has sufficient motion in the water to admit of the helm being effective. ...

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stern-way
The movement by which a ship goes stern foremost. The opposite of head-way. ...

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stoach-way
The streamlet or channel which runs through the silt or sand at low-water in tidal ports; a term pri...

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under way
A ship beginning to move under her canvas after her anchor is started. Some have written this under ...

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'way up!
See way aloft! ...

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'way aloft!
or 'way up! The command when the crew are required aloft to loose, reef, furl sails, or man yards,...

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way-gate
The tail-race of a mill. ...

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wrong way
When the ship casts in the opposite direction to that desired. Also, a ship swinging in a tide's way...

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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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Great White Way
·add. ·- Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about...

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right-of-way
n. a lane. In England the wordindicates a legal right to use a particular passage. InAustralia it i...

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caper corner-way
Diagonally. ...

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fetch head-way
or stern-way. Said of a vessel gathering motion ahead or astern. ...

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fetch way, to
Said of a gun, or anything which escapes from its place by the vessel's motion at sea. ...

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gather way, to
To begin to feel the impulse of the wind on the sails, so as to obey the helm. ...

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give way together
So that the oars may all dip and rise together, whereby the force is concentrated. ...

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keeping her way
The force of steady motion through the water, continued after the power which gave it has varied or ...

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lose way, to
When a ship slackens her progress in the water. ...

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lost her way
When the buoy is streamed, and all is ready for dropping the anchor. ...

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make head-way
A ship makes head-way when she advances through the water. ...

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pilot's fair-way
, or pilot's water. A channel wherein, according to usage, a pilot must be employed. ...

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sea-way measurer
A kind of self-registering log invented by Smeaton, the architect of the Eddystone lighthouse. ...

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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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Out-of-the-way
·adj ·see under Out, ·adv ...

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angle of lee-way
The difference between the apparent compass-course and the true one arising from lateral pressure an...

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cast the wrong way
See wrong way. ...

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make lee-way, to
To drift to leeward of the course. ...

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make stern-way, to
To retreat, or move stern foremost. ...

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deaden a ship's way, to
To retard a vessel's progress by bracing in the yards, so as to reduce the effect of the sails, or b...

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give way with a will
Pull heartily together. ...

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Broad Way, Flying Horse Yard, Bishopsgate
See Foster Street. ...

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moor a cable each way, to
Is dropping one anchor, veering out two cables' lengths, and letting go another anchor from the oppo...

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which way does the wind lie?
What is the matter? ...

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