under-tow

Unable to remain flung up on the beach, pounded ever back toward the beach by the perpetual shoreward rush of the kanaka surf, the up-piled water escaped to the sea by way of the channel and in the form of under-tow along the bottom under the breakers.

THE KANAKA SURF 2010

"The under-tow ice has jammed below among the islands," Jacob Welse explained.

CHAPTER 23 2010

What is being proposed and promoted is swimming against a very strong under-tow of other concerns; the economy, the conflicts in Asia, health care, etc.

Democracy 101; a Call for Involvement 2009

"It's a little under-tow that they use," she says.

The Year Of The Smear 2008

And sure enough it was under-tow, the mystery of which was simple.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

The sea is delightfully tepid, but it is not without risk, — it becomes deep within biscuit-toss, there is a strong under-tow, and occasionally an ugly triangular fin may be seen cruizing about in unpleasant proximity.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Unable to remain flung up on the beach, pounded ever back toward the beach by the perpetual shoreward rush of the kanaka surf, the up-piled water escaped to the sea by way of the channel and in the form of under-tow along the bottom under the breakers.

The Kanaka Surf 1919

But one of them was in a pickle, for Father Neptune caught her in his under-tow -- which you must not mix up with his under-toe, something with which only the mermaids are familiar -- and a life-guard had to swim out and bring her in.

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

"The under-tow ice has jammed below among the islands," Jacob Welse explained.

A Daughter of the Snows Jack London 1896

Each wave knocked him into a heap, and the under-tow pulled at him.

The Open Boat 1894