Definition of "tidewater"

tidewater

noun
countable and uncountable, plural tidewaters
1. Water affected by the flow of the tide, especially tidal streams.
  Quotations
  Their mission in life was to tote bituminous coal out of the mountain fastness of West Virginia and move it west to the gateways of Deepwater, Columbus and Toledo and east to tidewater at Hampton Roads.
  1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 60
2. The seaboard.
  Quotations
  She was born Mary Blair Rice, the daughter of a prominent tidewater Virginia family whose roots stretched back to the colonial era.
  2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 100