EBBTIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ebbtide mean? 

• EBBTIDE (noun)
  The noun EBBTIDE has 1 sense:

1. the tide while water is flowing out

  Familiarity information: EBBTIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EBBTIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The tide while water is flowing out

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("ebbtide" is a kind of...):

tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)

Meronyms (parts of "ebbtide"):

ebb; reflux (the outward flow of the tide)

Antonym:

flood tide (the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide))