1. Water brought by the flood-tide.
1799. Ld. Hawke, in R. Brown, Agric. Surv. W. Riding, xii. § 6. 164. The tide water that has been previously admitted by the flood gate opens the clough again, and discharges itself.
1836. Hull & Selby Railw. Act, 108. Conveying the tide-water from the river Ouse.
1905. ‘Q’ (Quiller-Couch), Shining Ferry, vii. 75. A mort o’ tide-water have runned up an’ down since you spoke they words.
2. U.S. Water affected by the ordinary ebb and flow of the tide; tidal water. Also attrib.
1868. Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869), 389. Throughout the tide-water district, the whole country is believed to be underlaid by deposits of fossil shells.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U.S., V. ix. 424. The scanty naval stores … had to be transported from tide-water to the lake.
1888. Goode, Amer. Fishes, 3. A deep hole in the bed of a tide-water creek.
