back-wash

In a tie-breaker that day Chestnut defended his title and viewers were treated to the spectacle of some back-wash of the final chunks almost consumed by Kobayashi.

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We anchor up at astrong eddy line, what the Shad King calls a "back-wash," and he andhis buddy Tim Clymer go to work on the downriggers.

Fishing the Delaware River shad run in early spring 2006

Who does he think he is kidding, besides the 29% back-wash?

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In the back-wash of Fennario, the black and bloody mire The dire wolf collects his due while the boys sing round the fire

The WELL: Dire Wolf Robert Hunter 2003

In the back-wash of Fennario, the black and bloody mire

Dire Wolf Robert Hunter 1984

In the back-wash of Fennario, the black and bloody mire

Dire Wolf Robert Hunter 1984

Providentially, however, the strength of the struggling strokes of both the young fellows just carried them, beyond the reach of the back-wash of the current, out amidst the rolling waves that swept into the bay from the open in regular succession; and so, first Eric and then Fritz found themselves washed up on the old familiar beach, which they had never expected to set foot on again alive.

Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes

The motor swung around a corner and into a throbbing thoroughfare down the long, crowded course of which was pictured in an almost perpetual perspective panorama the rushing torrent, the back-wash, the undertow, the placid pools and the spectators upon the banks of the gigantic river of human endeavor.

Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles James H. Richardson

Atlantic which comes in here, makes it almost impossible for the strongest swimmer to return to the Bank, and that "back-wash" in a storm had accounted for the many shipwrecks that had occurred there in olden times.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

Eric, consequently, could see nothing beyond the wall of heaving water which the rollers presented as they thundered on the shingle, dragging back the pebbles in their back-wash with a rattling noise, as if the spirits of the deep were playing with dice in the depths below under the waves!

Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes