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Answer for the clue "A line marking the level reached by a body of water ", 9 letters:
watermark

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A watermark is a recognizable image or pattern in paper used to identify authenticity. Watermark or watermarking can also refer to:

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Watermark \Wa"ter*mark`\, n. A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water. A letter, device, or the like, wrought into paper during the process of manufacture. Note: ``The watermark ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE high ▪ Penal Policy in a Changing Society stands as the high watermark of what later became known as the treatment model. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ There is a watermark on this $50 bill. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a line marking the level reached by a body of water [syn: water line ] a distinguishing mark impressed on paper during manufacture; visible when paper is held up to the light

Usage examples of watermark.

She loves to appraise estate stuff, item by item, and bring out the watermarks and count the perforations and check the color charts.

A sepia and golden Tonkinese, her soft coat colored in a random watermarked silk pattern, she was much too elegant ever to be observed using the litter box, although I supposed she must be using it.

In early 1943, when the watermark for the British fivers had been achieved, the project of making the printing plates was transferred to Block 19, Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where Jewish and nonJewish graphologists and graphic artists worked under the direction of the SS.

The slim boots had dirty watermarks round the edges of the uppers that looked incongruous against the pale mauve carpet.

There were passports with the watermarks of a dozen governmentsdriving licenses, pilot's licences, ration books, credit cards, birth certificates, warrants, identification cards, passes, permits, memberships, and authorisations enough to establish anyone in any role from a Bulgarian tight-rope walker to a wholesale fish merchant from Grimsby.

It was a cedar green, but when she moved, it caught the lamplight in watermarks on the fabric, making the color ripple gently.

He remembered a pub being looted two squares back, and as they went toward it past the watermarked, half-timbered houses and a hotel named the Royal Hop Pole, he discovered another of her griefs: she had lost a heel and in any case her tight, pointed slippers weren't the best for walking.

I thought how odd it was that each page, no matter how flawlessly white, no matter what its inscription or watermark, always harboured another text, another identity, beneath its surface, palimpsested and invisible, like a secret ink that can be seen only when rubbed with magic dust or exposed to flame.

A second Joynson Superfine watermarked letter to Rothenstein, which includes mathematical scribbles and a cartoonish face and the word "ugh," has a return address of 10 Glebe Place, Chelsea, which is the same return address on Ellen Sickert's 1893 letter to Blanche.

An elegant pen began to skate over watermarked paper, the hardest letter she had ever had to write.

The writing was beautiful, calligraphy, on heavy vellum paper with a watermark.

If it were watermarked, she wonders, what would it be watermarked as, or with?

If each segment is watermarked with one of these numbers, then the action in each segment seems to be mapped here, and we have, for the first time, a geography of sorts, and possibly, if we knew the numbers for each segment, a formal order.

The bad handwriting looks disguised and is jarringly inconsistent with the handwriting of someone with access to pen and ink and fine-quality watermarked stationery.

The A Pirie & Sons watermarks we found on Sickert stationery include a watermarked date of manufacturing, and the three partial dates on the Ripper letters with the A Pirie & Sons watermark are 18 and 18 and 87.