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  • noun Plural form of tidewater.

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Examples

  • UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If the tidewaters get high enough and we can't get to you, we cannot rescue you, so please, make plans to evacuate.

    CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2005 2005

  • UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If the tidewaters get high enough and we can't get to you, we cannot rescue you, so please, make plans to evacuate.

    CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2005 2005

  • Three couples strayed beyond the fence to the marshy coastline, gushing tidewaters surging against the beach with circling gulls and herons overhead.

    Strategic Engagement Mann, Catherine 2003

  • She backed up a step, tidewaters swirling between them.

    Strategic Engagement Mann, Catherine 2003

  • Truly Brennilee, her youngest child, was the most troublesome seven-year-old Merry had ever heard of, always running across the rocky cliffs and the dunes below, sometimes daring the brutal tidewaters of Falidean Bay - which could bring twenty feet of water rushing across the muddy ground in a matter of a few running strides - in her endless quest for adventure and enjoyment.

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • Truly Brennilee, her youngest child, was the most troublesome seven-year-old Merry had ever heard of, always running across the rocky cliffs and the dunes below, sometimes daring the brutal tidewaters of Falidean Bay - which could bring twenty feet of water rushing across the muddy ground in a matter of a few running strides - in her endless quest for adventure and enjoyment.

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • These small vessels afforded the principal means of transportation through the uncharted wilderness tidewaters of Virginia.

    New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America J. Paul Hudson

  • By June, 1823, the canal was completed from Rochester to Schenectady; in October boats passed into the tidewaters of the Hudson at Albany; and in the autumn of

    The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway Archer Butler Hulbert 1903

  • The slaves of every age and sex, collected from the populous plantations of the tidewaters, and dressed in the best attire they have been able to muster, assemble in great numbers, swarming along the road, and clustering about the little whiskey-shops, producing a scene of bustle and confusion, witnessed only at the Christmas holidays.

    The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive 1852

  • The slaves of every age and sex, collected from the populous plantations of the tidewaters, and dressed in the best attire they have been able to muster, assemble in great numbers, swarming along the road, and clustering about the little whiskey-shops, producing a scene of bustle and confusion, witnessed only at the Christmas holidays.

    The White Slave or Memoirs of a Fugitive Hildreth, Richard 1852

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