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Definition of Tidewater river
1. Noun. A stream in which the effects of the tide extend far upstream.
Generic synonyms: Stream, Watercourse
Group relationships: Tidewater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tidewater River
Literary usage of Tidewater river
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States of by United States, William Mark McKinney (1918)
"And if it was so limited, then it did not extend to contracts for maritime services
when made on land, nor to torts and collisions on a tidewater river, ..."
2. Venezuela-British Guiana Boundary Arbitration: The Printed Argument on by Venezuela (1898)
"We answer: There is no principle of international law that gives to such a
tidewater, river- mouth settlement, as the Dutch had at Essequibo, ..."
3. The Virginia Handbook by Blair Howard (2001)
"Saltwater fishing on the ocean, the bay, and the tidewater river estuaries and
creeks is a major sport in Virginia. The state is blessed with more than 120 ..."
4. Venezuela-British Guiana Boundary Arbitration: The Printed Argument on by Venezuela (1898)
"We answer: There is no principle of international law that gives to such a
tidewater, river- mouth settlement, as the Dutch had at Essequibo, ..."
5. A Treatise Upon the Law of Eminent Domain by Henry Edmund Mills (1879)
"... said terminus.4 A charter authorizing the road to be constructed "to the place
of shipping lumber" on a tidewater river would not limit the location to ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1903)
"It will not be denied, that when land is bounded by a tidewater river, the limit
of private property is the mark to which high tide ascends. ..."
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