1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Alphabet. Dict. in Ess. Real Char. sig. Eee4^v/3 Eb, down-tide.

1832 Improvem. Hudson River 16 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (22nd Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. No. 189) If these obstructions were met at the same points by the up tides and down tides, the currents at those places would always, at certain hours in the day, be equal.

1887 Overland Monthly Oct. 405/1 The tide was again coming in, and we were on the mud flat. So I had to wait out there for another down tide.

1912 H. M. Neely Fred Spencer, Reporter x. 90 His intention was..to let the down tide take him along as far as it would before it turned.

1943 H. M. Evans Sting-fish & Seafarer x. 88 Coarse blowy nights and good down tides we gets most of our eels.

2003 Courier Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 23 Aug. m24 If it was a downtide, you'd sail down to what they called Gibson Island.

1841 Morning Post 16 Mar. 7/4 Nothing more was seen of him until his dead body was found on Sunday morning floating down tide off the Custom-house.

1890 Sailor's Mag. July 217/1 A long string of barges drifting down tide coal-laden.

1922 W. Beebe Beneath Tropic Seas vii. 82 More jellies came sailing down tide like an endless procession of pale moons.

1979 M. L. Pardey & L. F. Pardey Seraffyn's European Adventure 76 It was too late. Seraffyn slid slowly off one side of the buoy and floated downtide.

2016 Total Sea Fishing Jan. 31/1 Lures fished in the steadier water just downtide of a wreck when the tidal pull is at its strongest have the best chance of picking up bigger fish.