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Slack Water

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Noun

1. slack, slack water

a stretch of water without current or movement

Example Sentences:
'suddenly they were in a slack and the water was motionless'

slack

2. slack tide, slack water

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

slack tide

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Slack Water

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noun

the period of still water around the turn of the tide, esp at low tide

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Slack Water

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1.

the period between tides when the water is neither in ebb nor flood

2.

any stretch of water having little or no current

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Slack Water

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n.

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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