tide-boat
A boat or small vessel which travels with or by means of the tide.
| 1576 The tyde taryeth no man in Collier Illustr. E.E. Pop. Lit. (1863) 77 He dyed in a great madnesse, And went with the tyde boat straight into Hell. 1611 Cotgr., L'Anguille, the name of the tyde-boat which passes betweene Blaye, and Bourdeaux. 1710 Brit. Apollo III. No. 25. 3/2, I lately in Tide-Boat to Gravesend did steer. 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge li, He may get to the Tower Stairs, and away by the Gravesend tide-boat. |