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

On the tideway in sculling matches, it is usual for pilots to conduct scullers.

From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.

Its fortunes hang on the Kingston Rowing Club, but it is well patronised by tideway clubs.

From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.