| 单词 | tide of ebb |
| 释义 | > as lemmastide of ebb 1. The reflux of the tide; the return of tide-water towards the sea. Often in phrase ebb and flow; also tide of ebb, half-quarter-ebb. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > change in level of water > [noun] > subsiding or receding ebba1000 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > ebbing or flowing out ebba1000 ebbingc1000 fresha1552 fall1571 vale-water1589 refloat1594 reflow1610 downtide1668 recurrency1724 out1756 retroposition1836 ebb-tide1837 recurrence1857 a1000 Battle of Maldon 65 Þar com flowende flod æfter ebban. a1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1114 On þis geare wæs swa mycel ebba. 1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Langtoft (1810) 106 Þe bodies..wer costen vpon þe sond, After an ebbe of þe flode. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 135 Ebbe of the see, refluxus, salaria. 1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation ii. xviii. sig. G.ii Whiche the Mariners call nepe tydes, lowe ebbes..or lowe fluddes. 1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars i. xxxix. 41 As Seuerne lately in her ebbs that sanke. 1665 R. Moray in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 54 The Flood runs East..and the Ebb West. 1763 W. Borlase in Philos. Trans. 1752 (Royal Soc.) 52 418 The sea advancing the first time to a quarter ebb; but the second advance was but as far as the sea reaches at half ebb. 1831 H. T. De la Beche Geol. Man. ii. 68 During the freshets the ebb and flow are little felt. 1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xxvii. 184 We..made sail, stemming the last of the ebb. < as lemmas |
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