tideday

The interval between two succe ive arrivals at the same place of the vertex of the tide wave. tidy tide-waiter, subst. A custom-house officer who watches the landing of goods to secure the payment of duties. "From the nobleman who held the white staff and the great seal, down to the humblest tide - waiter and gauger, what would now be called gro corruption was practiced without disguise and without reproach."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. iii.