Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) The flow of water caused by the rise and fall of the tide.
WordNet
n. the water current caused by the tides [syn: tidal flow]
Usage examples of "tidal current".
She paused, feeling the deep swash and pull of the twinned symbionts inside her, like a tidal current running below the bridge that was Jadzia.
The mad swirl of the tidal current caused a vortex that spun the galleon with such force the masts went crashing over the sides and the two guns broke their lashings and tumbled about the deck in a wild dance of destruction.
The tidal current that swept toward the shore of the island had now gripped them and, slowly but inexorably, the sandy strip of beach was moving closer.
He could also make out what appeared to be a tidal current running through the gap between the islands.
Hairs rise on the nape of his neck, and his hands tingle as he is drawn on a wave of shadows in the grip of the tidal current that flows up the hill and back to the man and the woman and the growing archway of light that now manifests within the stone circle.
The Gift put on sail and headed out into the River, cutting across the tidal current toward the west end of Strinder’.
Out in the center of the broad estuary three large junks are moored, their quilted sails furled, their familiarly rounded shapes bobbing gently in the strong tidal current.
The launching was executed smoothly with effortless efficiency, but the swift, four-knot tidal current was far stronger than anyone had anticipated.
Both realised that if they were swept past the lugger by some not unusual freak of the tidal current, they were as good as lost.
Music from a mariachi band and the tidal current of babble from a hundred voices greeted Shaw as he entered Humberty's home.
But assisted by the fast-flowing in- bound tidal current, her struggles only served to carry her farther into the channel.
Then the eight men behind him began turning the crank that was connected to the propeller at the stern, and Hunley moved slowly toward the end of Sullivan's Island, where she joined the tidal current sweeping through Breech Inlet into the sea beyond.
The walls of the cave echoed the throb of the engines as Thorne steered the boat through the swift tidal current.