Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The reflux of tide-water; the retiring tide.
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Examples
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The strong ebb-tide, racing down the Straits in the teeth of the wind, caused an unusually heavy and spiteful sea, which dashed aboard continually.
DEMETRIOS CONTOS 2010
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He depended upon the brisk sea breeze and the strong ebb-tide, which together kicked up a nasty sea, to bring me to grief.
DEMETRIOS CONTOS 2010
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And not all undefended, for out through the Golden Gate moved the Energon, a tiny toy of white, rolling like a straw in the stiff sea on the bar where a strong ebb-tide ran in the teeth of the summer sea-breeze.
Goliah 2010
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"During an ebb-tide shift, the water's moving a mile every 12 to 15 minutes," he explained.
The Sky's the Limit! A.J. Baime 2010
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Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring in of the flood-tide, the falling back to the sea of the ebb-tide.
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Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring in of the flood-tide, the falling back to the sea of the ebb-tide.
Travel 2009
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News at Eleven: It is fairly safe to say that this kind of English poetry, with its unique diction and ebb-tide, will never be written again by Indian men.
Archive 2009-01-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring in of the flood-tide, the falling back to the sea of the ebb-tide.
Traveling 2008
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Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring in of the flood-tide, the falling back to the sea of the ebb-tide.
Dove's Eye View: 2008
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It is all ebb-tide within, and I fear to question my heart.
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