Slack Water

Definition: Slack Water

Slack Water

Noun

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

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Mining

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Synonym: Slack Water

Crosswords: Slack Water

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The floating cross at the mouth of the trap. Excluding the statuette of St. Peter, the patron saint of fishermen, which is traditionally always the same, each Rais places his own images of saints. The cross serves the functional purpose of helping the fishermen read the currents. Slack water is the most desirable time to start the fishing operation. Credit: Fisheries.

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Czech

stojatá voda (backwater). (various references)

Danish

stille vande ved ebbe og flod (slack water at high tide, slack water at low tide). (various references)

Dutch

kentering van eb en vloed (slack water at high tide, slack water at low tide). (various references)

French

étale de marée haute (slack water at high tide, slack water at low tide), étale de marée basse (slack water at high tide, slack water at low tide). (various references)

German

Stauwasser bei Niedrigwasser (slack water at high tide, slack water at low tide), Stauwasser bei Hochwasser (slack water at high tide, slack water at low tide). (various references)

Greek 

παλιρροιοστάσιο ρηχίας (slack water at high tide, slack water at low tide), παλιρροιοστάσιο πλήμμης (slack water at high tide, slack water at low tide). (various references)

Hungarian

pangó víz, lassú víz, holtvíz. (various references)

Italian

stanca di marea bassa (slack water at high tide, slack water at low tide), stanca di marea alta (slack water at high tide, slack water at low tide). (various references)

Manx

lhiggin (turn, turn of tide). (various references)

Pig Latin

ackslay aterway

Romanian

timpul dintre flux şi reflux, apã stãtãtoare (backwater, dead water). (various references)

Thai

น้ำที่ไม่มีกระแสน้ำ. (various references)

Turkish

durgun su (backwater, dead water, ditchwater, slack, stagnant water, standing water, still water). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lúc nước không lên không xuống dòng nước không chảy. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: catwalks, tacklers.

-3 letters: acetals, calkers, carates, cartels, catwalk, clarets, clawers, crestal, karates, lackers, lactase, rackets, restack, retacks, scalare, scarlet, slacker, stacker, stalker, tackers, tackler, tackles, talkers, walkers, warstle, wastrel, wrastle.

-4 letters: acetal, akelas, alates, alerts, altars, alters, arecas, artels, astral, awakes, caesar, calesa, calker, carate, carats, carets, carles, cartel, cartes, casket, caster, castle.

+1 letter: blackwaters.

+2 letters: trackwalkers.

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