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Coastal region of Virginia
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tidewater
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Tidewater is a term used by industries and governments to refer to access to ocean ports with international marine services for import and export of commodities. For export, the commodities can be shipped via trucks, trains and/or pipelines to a port, thereby ...
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alt. 1 Water affected by the flow of the tide, especially tidal streams 2 The seaboard n. 1 Water affected by the flow of the tide, especially tidal streams 2 The seaboard
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also tide-water , 1772, "water affected by the normal ebb and flow of the tide," from tide (n.) + water (n.1). In reference to the lowland regions of the Virginia shore of the western Chesapeake Bay, 1832.
Usage examples of tidewater.
The rain had thinned to a gentle mist and the Margate Hook was vanishing beneath the flooding tidewaters.
The style rose with the theme, and swelled like tidewaters, and at length its flood lifted the reader, freighted with doubts and fears.
Even Deoris flung away her sandals and dashed gaily into the tidewaters with them.
We again unloaded the canoes and stowed the loading on a rock above the tidewater, and formed a camp on the drift logs which appeared to be the only situation we could find to lee-the hills being either a perpendicular cliff or steep ascent, rising to about 500 feet.
Thus begins, so help me Muse, the tidewater tale of twin Bellerophon, mythic hero, cousin to constellated Perseus: how he flew and reflew Pegasus the winged horse.
Ye got four deces difference in them Tidewater canals, high tide to low—" "There's another reason, however unpleasant to contemplate.
John's College stood under this mountain sun, bundled against the drearier winter of Maryland's humid tidewater climate, and looked around.
Three of those numbers had Tidewater, Central and Northern Virginia area codes and exchanges, while the area code for DRMS was Memphis, Tennessee.
Above the windows and below the slightly jutting barrel roof Tonopah and Tidewater R.
Catherine's past also underwent radical fictionalization: she'd somehow become the eldest daughter of one of the oldest and most respected Tidewater families.
Never a thought about our toes and vi- cious sea turtles or giant sea lampreys come into the tidewater.