Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tide that opposes one already existing; the flood- or ebb-tide that is about to succeed to the one already existing; the incoming flood-tide overlying the outgoing ebb-tide as shown by the surface-ripple or bore.
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Examples
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A counter-tide of light flowed in here from the west, surging up the slope from the brook and spilling over the crest into the garden.
The Pilgrim of Hate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1984
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Sometimes a counter-tide would sweep a whole flotilla out to sea, when never a man of the hunting crew would be heard of more.
Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903
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And still further, there was another counter-tide.
A Splendid Hazard Harold MacGrath 1901
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Mountains, and meet the counter-tide setting in from the coast of the
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852 Various 1841
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In Andhra Pradesh, the eye of the current storm, the Centre's announcement on Telangana has unleashed a huge counter-tide.
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