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Definition of Ebbtide
1. Noun. The tide while water is flowing out.
Definition of Ebbtide
1. the ebbing tide [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ebbtide
Literary usage of Ebbtide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lolóma; or, Two years in cannibal-land by Henry Britton (1884)
"... THE ebbtide. ON the next occasion on which the company assembled in Big-Wind's
house disposed themselves to story-telling, I gave them " AH Baba, ..."
2. Loloma: or two years in cannibal-land: a story of old Fiji by Henry Britton (1884)
"CAPTURE OF THE ebbtide. ON the next occasion on which the company assembled in
Big-Wind's house disposed themselves to story-telling, I gave them " Ali Baba ..."
3. Island Song Lyrics Volume 2 by Larry W. Jones (2004)
"ebbtide Love (12/25/2002) (#757) The tide is ebbing at the end of day The roll
of the waves will now dissipate What an enchanting time for lovers too This ..."
4. Science and the Healing Art, Or A New Book on Old Facts by John Custis Darby (1880)
"The laws of constructive assimilation and of destructive metamorphosis are like
the tides— the ebbtide never begins to flow until the, floodtide ceases, ..."
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