英语词汇“slack water”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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Then we went down the river as far as the Elbow, where we waited in the slack-water to hail up-bound steamboats.
Raftmates|Kirk Munroe
No, sir; it's slack-water; or, rather, the ebb is just beginning to make.
The Two Admirals|J. Fenimore Cooper
Glen had swum and fished in it, and boated on it, until he knew its every current and slack-water pool.
Campmates|Kirk Munroe
It is high-water and slack-water, in Port Desire, at half-past twelve, on the days of full and change.
Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836|Robert FitzRoy

They fish around the 'slack-water,' catching the last of the ebb and the first of the flow, and hence drift but little either way.
The Hudson|Wallace Bruce

单词	slack water
释义	slack water noun a period when a body of water is between tides. water that is free of currents. Origin of slack water First recorded in 1760–70 Words nearby slack water slack-key, slack off, slacks, slack suit, slacktivism, slack water, slag, slag cement, slag down, slaggy, slag heap Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for slack water Then we went down the river as far as the Elbow, where we waited in the slack-water to hail up-bound steamboats. Raftmates\|Kirk Munroe No, sir; it's slack-water; or, rather, the ebb is just beginning to make. The Two Admirals\|J. Fenimore Cooper Glen had swum and fished in it, and boated on it, until he knew its every current and slack-water pool. Campmates\|Kirk Munroe It is high-water and slack-water, in Port Desire, at half-past twelve, on the days of full and change. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836\|Robert FitzRoy They fish around the 'slack-water,' catching the last of the ebb and the first of the flow, and hence drift but little either way. The Hudson\|Wallace Bruce British Dictionary definitions for slack water slack water noun the period of still water around the turn of the tide, esp at low tide Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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slack water

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