单词 | counter-tide |
释义 | ˈcounter-ˌtide [counter- 6.] A tide running counter to the main or usual current.
1570Dee Math. Pref. 18 Places of daungers..or of Quick⁓sandes..Countertides, Whorlepooles, etc. 1685Dryden Thren. August. iv. 8 Such were our counter-tydes at land, and so Presaging of the fatal blow. 1751C. Labelye Westm. Br. 119 Rivers that have flat Shores, Counter Tides, and Eddies. 1796H. Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) I. p. lxiii, Counter-currents and counter-tides. |

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