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单词 tide-water
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tide-watern.

Forms: Also tidewater.
Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtide-ˌwater.
1. Water brought by the flood-tide.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > rising or flowing in flood > water brought by
tide-water1799
1799 Ld. Hawke in R. Brown Agric. Surv. W. Riding xii. §6. 164 The tide water that has been previously admitted by the flood gate opens the clough again, and discharges itself.
1836 Hull & Selby Railw. Act 108 Conveying the tide-water from the river Ouse.
1911 ‘Q’ Shining Ferry (new ed.) vii. 75 A mort o' tide-water have runned up an' down since you spoke they words.
2.
a. U.S. Water affected by the ordinary ebb and flow of the tide; tidal water.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > [noun] > water
tide-water1772
1772 in W. W. Hening Statutes at Large: Coll. Laws Virginia (1821) VIII. 564 The extension of the navigation of James river..will be greatly promoted by cutting a canal..from the Westham to the tide water.
1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 363 The distance from the Capes of Virginia to the termination of the tide-water..is above 300 miles.
1818 H. B. Fearon Sketches Amer. 49 Being banished to forty miles beyond tide-water.
1832 J. F. Watson Hist. Tales N.Y. 38 [Hudson City] is deemed at the head of tide water and ship navigation.
1866 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. IX. ix. 152 The scanty naval stores..had to be transported from tide-water to the lake.
b. attributive. Designating or pertaining to regions situated on tide-water or affected by tides, esp. (also with capital initial) eastern Virginia. Also elliptical, a tide-water region, esp. that of eastern Virginia.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [adjective]
litorean1656
littoral1656
shory1684
tide-water1832
coastal1883
shoreside1948
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [adjective] > U.S.A. > specific states or regions > Virginia > parts of
tide-water1832
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > covered by sea
washc1440
sea-common1584
salting1712
inksa1740
tide-land1787
sea-grounds1826
salting-mound1908
shore1919
tide-water1949
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > specific states > Virginia > parts of
Eastern Shore1612
tide-water1949
1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn I. xviii. 179 The tide-water country of Virginia.
1835 Southern Literary Messenger 1 662 The tranquil and affectionate hearths of tide~water Virginia.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 389 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Throughout the tide-water district, the whole country is believed to be underlaid by deposits of fossil shells.
1884 Cent. Mag. Apr. 825/2 Mr. Jones..[has] one of those thin, mournful faces common to tide-water Maryland.
1936 W. Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! vii. 222 He didn't listen to the vague and cloudy tales of Tidewater splendor that penetrated even his mountains.
1943 Sun (Baltimore) 14 June 10/1 A comprehensive program to increase the annual harvest of the oyster industry has been submitted to conservation authorities in the various tidewater States.
1944 L. Mumford Condition of Man vi. 216 The stately tide-water mansions of Virginia.
1949 B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore i. ii. 32 Within his state the Southerner thinks in terms of Eastern Shore or Tobacco Country, Tidewater or Valley, [etc.].
1976 Amer. Speech 1974 49 45 The Delmarva area..comprises southern Delaware, portions of the eastern shore of Maryland, and the peninsula and islands of tidewater Virginia.
1979 D. Anthony Long Hard Cure xxi. 166 A hardnosed captain of industry who wanted a pretty mannequin from tidewater aristocracy.
1980 Amer. Speech 55 285 It is common in the Virginia piedmont and tidewater.
c. attributive. Designating bodies of water affected by tides.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [adjective] > affected by
tide-water1835
1835 J. Martin Descr. Virginia 40 A tide water river, or more correctly a bay, the Chowan.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 3 A deep hole in the bed of a tide-water creek.
1939 Florida: Guide to Southernmost State (Federal Writers' Project) ii. 177 Daytona Beach..is a city with a triple waterfront, one on the Atlantic Ocean and one on each side of a tidewater lagoon.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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