sideways

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To build in the concrete water gates, mountains of rock would have to be dropped in the tideways, some of which are 200 feet deep.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is like the waters of the Nile or the Mississippi, turbulent in the great tideways, and heavy with the coloring matter of the soil it has washed for thousands of miles.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Many break adrift and surge in the tideways, moving as the set of the current takes them.

From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)

The sea is constantly agitated, and ships suffer at once by the violence of the wind, the tideways, and the bad anchorage.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina

Cowper gives interest to the flat meadows of the Ouse; and Crabbe, a botanist and lover of natural history, paints with unrivalled fidelity and force the flat shores and tideways of his native East Anglia.

From English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century by Stephen, Leslie, Sir