SLACK TIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slack tide mean? 

• SLACK TIDE (noun)
  The noun SLACK TIDE has 1 sense:

1. the occurrence of relatively still water at the turn of the (low) tide

  Familiarity information: SLACK TIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLACK TIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The occurrence of relatively still water at the turn of the (low) tide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

slack tide; slack water

Hypernyms ("slack tide" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

In meantime we may rest and in peace, for there are waters between us which he do not want to pass, and which he could not if he would—unless the ship were to touch the land, and then only at full or slack tide.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)