[f. TIDE sb. 7 + MILL sb.1]
1. A mill driven by the flux and reflux of the tide acting on a water-wheel.
1796. W. H. Marshall, W. England, II. 63. A low bank, thrown up across these marshlands,… gives effect to a tide mill, situated near one end of it.
1825. J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 94. Tide-mills,… are such as employ for their first mover the flowing and ebbing tide, either in the sea or a river.
1870. E. L. Garbett, in Eng. Mech., 11 March, 624/3. Corn has been ground by tide-mills.
2. ‘A mill for clearing lands from tide-water’ (Webster, 1828).
