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

Even on the tideway sculls should be as light as a good scull-maker can turn them out, so long as they retain their stiffness.

From Rowing by Lehmann, Rudolf Chambers

The idle loungers in the summer saw a man and boat lingering in the tideway, apparently watching the gliding waves without casting a net or looking at the wildfowl.

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir