counter-tiden.
A tide running counter to the main or usual current.
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night-tide1600
day tidea1615
cross tide1675
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1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aiiij v Places of daungers..as, of Quicksandes..Countertides, Whorlepooles. &c.
1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis iv. 8 Such were our counter-tydes at land, and so Presaging of the fatal blow.
1751 C. Labelye Descr. Westm. Bridge 119 Rivers that have flat Shores, Counter Tides, and Eddies.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. p. lxiii Counter-currents and counter-tides.
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