Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mill supplied with power by means of a water-wheel operated by a fall or current in a tideway or from a tidal basin.
- noun A water-pumping station operated by a tide-wheel, used to pump water over a dike. See
tide-wheel .
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Examples
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Of the villages in the centre of the peninsula Sidlesham is the most considerable, with its handsome square church tower and its huge red tide-mill, now silent and weather-worn, standing mournfully at the head of the dry harbour of Pagham, whose waters once turned its wheels.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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She was moored three quarters of a mile to the eastward of Brooklyn ferry, near a tide-mill on the Long
American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge
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Nothing has to be done but to keep it supplied with paper and pencil, and turn a handle as if it were a coffee-mill instead of a tide-mill.
Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895
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There are many drawbacks to a tide-mill of this description.
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There cannot be a doubt that in this epoch of the earth's history, so long as the price of coal is only a few shillings a ton, the tide-mill, even though we seem to get its power without current expense, is vastly more expensive than a steam-engine.
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Even then, however, the financial consideration remains, as to whether the cost of building the dam and maintaining the tide-mill in good order will not on the whole exceed the original price and the charges for the maintenance of a hundred horse power steam-engine.
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The story tells how they purchased a tide-mill, which afterwards, by the ill-will and obstinacy of neighbors, became a source of much trouble to them.
Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants Oliver Optic 1859
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The story tells how they purchased a tide-mill, which afterwards, by the ill-will and obstinacy of neighbors, became a source of much trouble to them.
Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859
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The story tells how they purchased a tide-mill, which afterwards, by the ill-will and obstinacy of neighbors, became a source of much trouble to them.
Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student Oliver Optic 1859
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The story tells how they purchased a tide-mill, which afterwards, by the ill-will and obstinacy of neighbors, became a source of much trouble to them.
Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World Oliver Optic 1859
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