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 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

The other war head they cut adrift in the tideway.

From Time Magazine Archive

He succeeded, however, in laying hold of the half-drowned man, and, striking with him from out the perilous tideway into an eddy, with a Herculean effort he regained the quay.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh

Nor do the leading amateur tideway clubs allow their juniors to race on them in club matches.

From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.