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EDDY TIDE

Volume 4 · 53 words · 1778 Edition

or Eddy water, among seamen, is where the water runs back contrary to the tide; or that which hinders the free passage of the stream, and so causes it to return again.

EDDY-Wind is that which returns or is beat back from a sail, mountain, or any thing that may hinder its passage.