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

The Shasta's bows swung seaward a little further, and both vessels swept up the tideway toward the deadly slope of stone.

From Thrice Armed by Bindloss, Harold

The word "amateur" seems to be adrift upon the same bewildering tideway as the words "angler" and "angling."

From The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle by Bradford, Charles Barker