[COUNTER- 6.] A tide running counter to the main or usual current.

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1570.  Dee, Math. Pref., 18. Places of daungers … or of Quicksandes … Countertides, Whorlepooles, [etc.].

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1685.  Dryden, Thren. August., iv. 8. Such were our counter-tydes at land, and so Presaging of the fatal blow.

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1751.  Labelye, Westm. Br., 119. Rivers that have flat Shores, Counter Tides, and Eddies.

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1796.  H. Hunter, trans. St.-Pierre’s Stud. Nat. (1799), I. p. lxiii. Counter-currents and counter-tides.

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