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 galley at last drew up under the counter of a large ship of foreign rig, lying in the tideway off Tilbury Hope.

From The Great Mogul by Tracy, Louis

Meon’s people could not bring a boat across for some hours; even so it was ticklish work among the rocks in that tideway.

From Rewards and Fairies by Kipling, Rudyard