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

The most beautiful portion of the river lies between Lough Derg, at whose lower end stands the ancient town of Killaloe, and Limerick, which marks the limit of the tideway.

From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

"Came up in the tideway at the Mooragh—gracious me! and I saw him myself on'y yesterday."

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir