ˈtideway
A channel in which a tidal current runs; also the tidal part of a river; transf. a strong current running in such a channel; = tide-gate1.
| [1627–1793: see tides-way.] 1798 Hull Advertiser 4 Aug. 2/4 A gunboat..being very manageable in a strong tideway. 1810 J. T. in Risdon's Surv. Devon p. xxxii, It..serves to convey shipping from the Tideway. 1856 Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxvii. 359 A moment's check would plunge the whole concern into the rapid tide-way. 1875 Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. v. (ed. 2) 153 Sounding in a tide-way it may be necessary to anchor the boat. |
| fig. 1821–30 Ld. Cockburn Mem. iii. (1874) 149 His shop, in the very tideway of all our business, made it the natural resort of..all sorts of literary idlers. 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Com. (1881) 60 A lead that..would roll him on a good tideway strong in his own passion and his lady's up against the last defences. 1883 Century Mag. Oct. 823/1 Henry VIII.'s palace has not been forever a barber's shop, or the Strand a tide-way of shop-keeping. |