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Definition of Ebb down
1. Verb. Flow back or recede. "The tides ebbed at noon"
Generic synonyms: Fall Back
Derivative terms: Ebb
Antonyms: Tide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ebb Down
Literary usage of Ebb down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The St. Lawrence Pilot: Comprising Sailing Directions for the Gulf and River by Henry Wolsey Bayfield (1860)
"When the flood first makes, it meets the ebb down the channel to the northward
... The principal part of the ebb down the North channel, being turned to the ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1866)
"Up and down the Solent channel the tide pours at a furious speed ; and the rush
of the strong ebb down the narrows, flushed with the cross-tide from St. ..."
3. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Legislature (1881)
"About three hours before break of day we heaved the anchor again and went with
the ebb down the Jill behind Staten-Island. In the morning we put on sails ..."
4. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1871)
"In working down the distance to the Shoals, Mr. Ure tried the Gareloch ebb, and
the Vision got the lift of the ebb down the river. ..."
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