In tidal zones, the current in rivers and streams may reverse on the flood tide before resuming on the ebb tide.
Note the tidal bore takes place during the flood tide and never during the ebb tide.
When the tide is coming to the full, when the rising tide is flowing or an ebb tide is racing out, then the great currents run clearly.
There was then an ebb tide.
Tradesmen and shopkeepers of all kinds are alarmed because of falling receipts over the counters, and overall there is a general atmosphere of industrial ebb tide.
I have seen fishing boats rushing out on an ebb tide going at an enormous speed—10 knots, because the tide was already going at four or five knots.
Those are the ebb tide hours.
The strong northerly wind had built up the raging sea so much that it completely discounted the ebb tide.
