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Definition of Tidal bore
1. Noun. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
Definition of Tidal bore
1. Noun. A wave, in the form of a wall of water, formed by an incoming tide funneling into an estuary ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tidal Bore
Literary usage of Tidal bore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo: A Record of Intimate by Edwin Herbert Gomes (1911)
"... music— Cock-fighting—Tops—" Riding the tidal bore "—Swimming— Trials of strength.
AT certain times of the year the Dyaks are very busy at their farms, ..."
2. Treatise on Hydraulics by Mansfield Merriman (1910)
"The tidal bore, which occurs in many large rivers when the tide flows in at ...
This investigation indicates that the velocity of the tidal bore depends ..."
3. Treatise on Hydraulics by Mansfield Merriman (1905)
"The tidal bore, which occurs in many large rivers when the tide flows in at ...
This investigation indicates that the velocity of the tidal bore depends ..."
4. Report of the Vizagapatam and Backergunge Cyclones of October 1876 by John Eliot (1877)
"On the east, therefore, of this line of meeting and of the eastern line of islands
is the region of salt-water tide and tidal bore, and to the west the ..."
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