tideland
- n land near the sea that is overflowed by the tide
- But the new project will get dirt moving on the big dam site at Oroville (using $172 million in tideland-oil revenues).
- The oil water states kept up their fight, and understandably: Texas in one year got $14 million for school money from tideland royalties.
- A legislative headache in California for years, this strip of tideland holds natural gas and oil worth about $500,000,000.