A channel in which a tide runs, especially the tidal part of a river.
潮汐水道，潮路；（河流的）感潮段
the net is fastened to a stationary boat in a tideway
Example sentencesExamples
The cause of the disturbance: a sparrowhawk sweeping low across the tideway and heading straight for a little grebe swimming in the main channel.
During the second week in December 1992 legions of lapwings again descended on the tideway.
As many as 100 may assemble on this stretch of tideway.
We were after roach and bream, and bream fishing has become excellent in the tideway in recent years.
However, there is still concern over the salmon stocks, which were in decline until 1987, when new by-laws were introduced to reduce illegal exploitation in the tideway.
Its calls epitomise the atmosphere of the lonely marshes and tideways where it is found.
He correctly attributed the difference to the fact that the Lambeth company drew its water from Thames Ditton, above Teddington lock, where there was no danger from sewage in the tideway.
With 120 fish species, hundreds of thousands of birds, and a thriving fishing industry, the river now ranks among the cleanest metropolitan tideways in the world.
Rhymes
guideway
Definition of tideway in US English:
tideway
nounˈtaɪdˌweɪˈtīdˌwā
A channel in which a tide runs, especially the tidal part of a river.
潮汐水道，潮路；（河流的）感潮段
the net is fastened to a stationary boat in a tideway
Example sentencesExamples
We were after roach and bream, and bream fishing has become excellent in the tideway in recent years.
The cause of the disturbance: a sparrowhawk sweeping low across the tideway and heading straight for a little grebe swimming in the main channel.
However, there is still concern over the salmon stocks, which were in decline until 1987, when new by-laws were introduced to reduce illegal exploitation in the tideway.
As many as 100 may assemble on this stretch of tideway.
With 120 fish species, hundreds of thousands of birds, and a thriving fishing industry, the river now ranks among the cleanest metropolitan tideways in the world.
During the second week in December 1992 legions of lapwings again descended on the tideway.
He correctly attributed the difference to the fact that the Lambeth company drew its water from Thames Ditton, above Teddington lock, where there was no danger from sewage in the tideway.
Its calls epitomise the atmosphere of the lonely marshes and tideways where it is found.