Tide water, water affected by the flow of the tide; hence, broadly, the seaboard.Tide wave, or Tidal wave, the swell of water as the tide moves. That of the ocean is called primitive; that of bays or channels derivative. Whewell.Tide wheel, a water wheel so constructed as to be moved by the ebb or flow of the tide.

Tide
(Tide) v. t. To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.

They are tided down the stream.
Feltham.

Tide
(Tide), v. i. [AS. tidan to happen. See Tide, n.]

1. To betide; to happen. [Obs.]

What should us tide of this new law?
Chaucer.

2. To pour a tide or flood.

3. (Naut.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

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