Definitions for slack-water

slack-water slack water

Slack-Water is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 738 anagrams from letters in slack-water (-aaceklrstw).

Definitions for slack-water

noun

  1. a period when a body of water is between tides.
  2. water that is free of currents.

Origin of slack-water

First recorded in 1760-70

Examples for slack-water

"You can haul the trap at slack water this afternoon," the director said.

The coves and hollows were better wooded and there were some stretches of slack water.

It has also been suggested to improve the river Raisin by locks and slack water navigation.

He was in the slack water of the soul, when the ebb is spent, before the tide has begun to flow.

Each morning a thin film of ice was to be seen along the edges of the slack water.

And then, with a final wrestle, they were in slack water, and she loosed her hold and struck out alongside him.

It was slack water now, and the river stood still, holding its breath.

In slack water you will have to keep moving your set as the water rises and falls.

Ruth, let us get the net and put it right across the creek as soon as it is slack water.

And it was slack water in the minds of men floating on that dark and sinister harbour.

Word Value for slack-water
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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