Ebb-tide: the falling tide, part of the tidal cycle between high water and the next low water.

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The staff's ebb-tide morale was palpable, and the guests' complaining all too audible.

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Ebb-tide delta: an accretionary deposit of sand found on the seaward side of an inlet and usually formed by tidal currents.

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The economics of any government follows an ebb and tide.

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If there is any consolation to be had from this catalogue of wars, it is that recent decades have seen the tide of conflict ebb slowly backwards.

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As the tide rises, a flood-tidal current moves in one direction and as the tide falls, the ebb-tidal current moves in the opposite direction.

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The walks, either in the heart of London near St Paul's Cathedral or in the leafy southwest by Kew Bridge, take place at midday when the tide is at its lowest ebb.

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But recently the tide has started, slowly, to ebb.

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But it is worth remembering that this is a tide that has risen in the past, only to ebb again.

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