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where water gets squeezed and suddenly remembers it can run fast.
means A narrows is a constricted stretch of water — a channel, strait, or river passage where the banks pinch close together and the current quickens.
from From Old English 'nearu,' meaning tight, cramped, or constricted — the same root that gives us 'narrow.' Used as a noun for a confined waterway, it often appears pluralized as 'the Narrows,' a sailor's plain naming for any place a ship must thread carefully. Distantly related to old Germanic words for binding or tightness, the kind of squeeze you feel in your chest as much as in a channel.
- current speed
- Tidal narrows can outpace a sprinting human
- naming
- Towns worldwide called The Narrows for exactly this reason
- whirlpool maker
- Constricted flow spawns dangerous standing whirlpools
- strategic value
- Forts guarded narrows to choke enemy fleets
strait of gibraltar — 8.9 miles wide at narrowest point between spain and morocco, separates atlantic from mediterranean
bering strait — 55 miles wide at narrowest between alaska and russia, separates pacific from arctic ocean
cook strait — 14 miles wide at narrowest between new zealand's north and south islands