tideway

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The older men in the group were instrumental in reviving tideway rowing after the second world war and were a driving force behind initiatives for sculling, the discipline that uses two oars instead of one.

From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2010

The other war head they cut adrift in the tideway.

From Time Magazine Archive

The starting point for The Weir and the Island, now owned by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, was the view Kienbusch got of a weir made of burnt spruce, set in a tideway.

From Time Magazine Archive

Neutral colours were painted on her topside; the boats were gone and dangling boat-falls streamed alongside in the tideway.

From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)

Here is the limit of the tideway, and above this point the St. Lawrence expands for some thirty miles into Lake St. Peter.

From A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical by Lucas, Charles Prestwood