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Definition of tidal bore in English: tidal borenoun A large wave or bore caused by the constriction of the spring tide as it enters a long, narrow, shallow inlet. Example sentencesExamples - The images - showing a colossal wave looming over people - were actually photographs of a tidal bore (a wall of water that travels up some rivers during high tide).
- Sometimes, a bore can form during which an abrupt front of whitewater will rapidly advance inland much similar to the tidal bore formed at the mouth of large rivers.
- In the case of a tidal bore, like the one in Canada's Bay of Fundy, a strong rising tide can enter a river channel and push the water back upstream.
- A tidal bore, formerly > 2 m in height, now rarely > 1 m in height, forms on incoming tides.
- The tidal bore comes in faster than a galloping horse, but first wilful surging water fills gullies and gaping holes left by the last ebbing tide.
- More than 115,000 tourists from home and abroad gathered at Haining on Sunday to watch the mammoth autumnal tidal bores.
- The tidal bore of water in a salt marsh estuary typically involves very little wave action, with slow and steady increases and decreases in water level.
- Gentle, rolling hills bring the village slanting towards the waters of Morecambe Bay, where visitors enjoying a pint at one of the village's pubs on a summer evening can watch the remarkable tidal bore rush in.
- An eygre is a tidal bore - still called an aegir today.
Definition of tidal bore in US English: tidal borenoun A large wave caused by the funneling of a flood tide as it enters a long, narrow, shallow inlet. Example sentencesExamples - The images - showing a colossal wave looming over people - were actually photographs of a tidal bore (a wall of water that travels up some rivers during high tide).
- Sometimes, a bore can form during which an abrupt front of whitewater will rapidly advance inland much similar to the tidal bore formed at the mouth of large rivers.
- An eygre is a tidal bore - still called an aegir today.
- The tidal bore comes in faster than a galloping horse, but first wilful surging water fills gullies and gaping holes left by the last ebbing tide.
- Gentle, rolling hills bring the village slanting towards the waters of Morecambe Bay, where visitors enjoying a pint at one of the village's pubs on a summer evening can watch the remarkable tidal bore rush in.
- In the case of a tidal bore, like the one in Canada's Bay of Fundy, a strong rising tide can enter a river channel and push the water back upstream.
- More than 115,000 tourists from home and abroad gathered at Haining on Sunday to watch the mammoth autumnal tidal bores.
- The tidal bore of water in a salt marsh estuary typically involves very little wave action, with slow and steady increases and decreases in water level.
- A tidal bore, formerly > 2 m in height, now rarely > 1 m in height, forms on incoming tides.
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