SLACK WATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slack water mean? 

• SLACK WATER (noun)
  The noun SLACK WATER has 2 senses:

1. a stretch of water without current or movement

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

  Familiarity information: SLACK WATER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLACK WATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stretch of water without current or movement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

slack; slack water

Context example:

suddenly they were in a slack and the water was motionless

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

stretch (a large and unbroken expanse or distance)

Sense 2

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 water" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

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

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)