Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dam to prevent the tide from overflowing a marsh.
- To improve (a tidal river or stream) and prevent the tidal overflow of its marshes and tidal meadows by placing tide-gates at its mouth.
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- noun Canada A
tide gate , designed to protectmarshland , so constructed as to let out water at low tide, but to prevent an influx of water at high tide.
Etymologies
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Borrowing from Acadian French aboideau
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Examples
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James Simonds and his companion, White, organized a tremendous enterprise with the result that an aboideau was built, and other dykes were made, and the great marshes of Tantramar were redeemed from the water.
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