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slack water

1. A period of cessation in the strong flow of a current of water, especially at high or low tide.

2. An area in a sea or river unaffected by currents; still water.

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slack water

(Physical Geography) the period of still water around the turn of the tide, esp at low tide

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slack′ wa′ter

1. a period when a body of water is between tides.

2. water that is free of currents.

[1760–70]

slack water

, slack tide - Before any turn of the tide, there is a time of slack water or slack tide.

See also related terms for tide.

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Noun	1.	slack water - a stretch of water without current or movement; "suddenly they were in a slack and the water was motionless" slack stretch - a large and unbroken expanse or distance; "a stretch of highway"; "a stretch of clear water"
	2.	slack water - the occurrence of relatively still water at the turn of the (low) tide slack tide tide - the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon

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While waiting for slack water, in which to lift their heavy nets from the bed of the bay, the Chinese had all gone to sleep below.

Slack water had come, and, as the ebb was commencing, there was need for hurry if we cared to escape waiting half a day for the next tide.

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It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour.

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"Why, we're going that way ourselves, inside an hour, as soon as slack water comes," he exclaimed.

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Thus, like the tides on which it had been borne to the knowledge of men, the Harmon Murder--as it came to be popularly called--went up and down, and ebbed and flowed, now in the town, now in the country, now among palaces, now among hovels, now among lords and ladies and gentlefolks, now among labourers and hammerers and ballast-heavers, until at last, after a long interval of slack water it got out to sea and drifted away.

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It will need to be done in "slack water" - the point at which the tide is turning.

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He said it would need to be done in "slack water" - the point at which the tide is turning.

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The sunshine and a water temperature of 16C made for pleasant conditions but the 9 metre tide soon had swimmers heading up river before heading across towards Birkenhead Priory and the slack water before the tide turned and the six knot water flow pushed them towards the finishing point at Monks Ferry.

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