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lakie Sc.|ˈleɪkɪ|
Also 8 leaky.
An irregularity in the tides observed in the Firth of Forth (see quot. 1795). Also lakie-tide.
1710Sibbald Hist. Fife (1803) 87 There are lakies in the river of Forth, which are in no other river in Scotland. 1795Sinclair Statist. Acc. Scot. XIV. 612 The tides in the river Forth..exhibit a phenomenon not to be found (it is said) in any other part of the globe. This is what the sailors call a leaky tide... When the water has flowed for 3 hours, it then runs back for about an hour and a half;..it returns immediately, and flows during another hour and a half to the same height it was at before, and this change takes place both in the flood and ebb tides. 1885D. Beveridge Culross & Tulliallan I. i. 35 The lakie tide never recedes much more than two feet before returning on its regular course... When the lakie has run its course, the tide flows or recedes, as the case may be, to the proper limit of high or low water. |