slack-water

They often developed in areas of fine-grained overbank or slack-water deposits where sedimentation rates were relatively low.

Ecoregions of Mississippi (EPA) 2008

Soils developed from clayey alluvium including overbank and slack-water deposits; they commonly have a high shrink-swell potential and are locally rich in organic material.

Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA) 2008

Soils are mostly gray to black Vertisols, developed from clayey alluvium of overbank or slack-water deposits.

Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA) 2008

The tide being just at slack-water, this gave him quite as much way as he wanted, and he steered into a little bight of the southern bank, and made fast to a stump, and looked about; for he durst not approach the creek until the light should fade and the men have stowed tackle and begun to feed.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

In order that they may be made fully useful for navigation there has come into vogue a method of improvement known as canalization, or the slack-water method, which consists in building a series of dams and locks, each of which will create a long pool of deep navigable water.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

Its water-line pursues its course by slack-water navigation down the Greenbrier to New River, and down New River to Lyken's Shoals on the Kanawha, eighty-five miles above its mouth.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

I saw at once where I was, and how I got there: that the tide had turned while I was swimming, and with a much briefer interval of slack-water than I had been led to suppose, -- that I had been swept a good way down-stream, and was far beyond all possibility of regaining the point I had left.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

This _slack-water_ period of a race, which comes before the rapid ebb of its prosperity, is familiar to all who live in cities.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

Here we used to remain until nearly time for slack-water again, when we weighed and made for home.

Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill

The system of canalling is a system of slack-water navigation, but abhors stagnant water.

Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Robert A. Wilson