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Meanings of tidewater in English

The coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia.

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Examples for "Tidewater region"
Examples for "Tidewater region"
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The fig, pomegranate, and other delicate fruits flourish in the Tidewater region.
Three Acres and Liberty
2
She had grown up in the eastern portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia often referred to as the Tidewater region.
The apostle
3
From 1800 to 1830, throughout the tidewater region, there were clear evidences of decline.
Rise of the New West, 1819-1829
4
The opening of the battle-summer of 1862 found the seat of war in the East, in the tidewater region of Virginia.
Charles Carleton Coffin: War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, a...
5
Through Colonel Preston, his orders were conveyed to Daniel Boone, for Boone's fame had now spread from the border to the tidewater regions.
Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and blood...
Usage of tidewater in English
1
Calhoun's great-grandfather owned a large and prosperous plantation in the tidewater area.
The President's Assassin
2
Way down south, in the tidewater part of the state.
Storm Front
3
To be sure, they were not all Cavaliers who settled in the tidewater Colonies.
The Crisis — Volume 08
4
The whole place was inundated by tidewater and filling fast.
Raging Heat
5
Wherever tidewater flows, goes also some portion of this speech.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 / A Magaz...
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That clear-eyed fellow might see through to the very bottom of Mark's tidewater plans.
Ronicky Doone
7
His voice is a sort of tidewater North Carolina.
Rogues
8
Two years before a road had been chartered to connect the Durham coal-fields with tidewater.
Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century
9
She stood up to her ankles in tidewater down at the edge of the ocean.
Depraved
10
At this place the first tidewater commences, and the river in consequence widens immediately below the rapid.
First Across the Continent / The Story of the Exploring Expediti...
11
And with a child clinging to each hand he faced once more the country of the tidewater.
Legends of Vancouver
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The road was a wooden tramway along which coal cars were dragged from the mines to tidewater.
Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century
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When H. H. Rogers coupled the coalmines of West Virginia with tidewater, he proved himself a Businessman.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 / Little J...
14
The immense torch which is held in the hand of the giantess is three hundred feet above tidewater.
Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader
15
This form of canoe we did not meet with untillwe reached tidewater or below the grand rappids.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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It is kept three ties ofvaults beneath the street level, beneath tidewater too, to make the tunnelling difficult.
The new yorker
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