A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1633-1700
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Tidegate, Tyd-gate, n. [e.m.E. tyde gate (1557), tidegate (1599).] The part of the tide (Tid(e n. 5) where the current is strongest; the channel in which this runs. — 1633 (1711) Sibbald's Orkn. & Shetl. 15.
The rousts and high tidegates of the sea about the promontories and the isles, make the weather often rough 1633 (1711) Sibbald's Orkn. & Shetl. 63.
A shallow … sound, currented with tyd-gate, not above eight foot deep at high water c1650-1700 Descr. Zetland 9.
About the whole coast here there is a strong current of tide-gate
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