The Collaborative International Dictionary
high-water \high-water\ a. Pertaining to water at its highest achieved level; of or pertaining to high water; as, the high-water marks on the walls after a flood.
Usage examples of "high-water".
Down at the sea-shore in the sunny hours, out from the woodwork of the groynes or bulwarks, there came a white spotted spider, which must in some way have known the height to which the tide came at that season, because he was far below high-water mark.
The prairie which is situated below our camp is above the high-water level and rich, covered with grass from 5 to 8 feet high, interspersed with copses of hazel, plums, currants, like those of the U.
I could see the high-water mark still wet on the buildings, as high as my head, and here and there an adobe house sat askew.
The bank he sat on was a curve of gravel, with patches of brown soil and black dead vegetation lying on it in a miniature berm-the high-water mark of the pond, apparently, a soil shore above the gravel one.
Stevenson made a careful survey, and prepared his models for a stone tower, the idea of which was at first received with pretty general scepticism, Smeaton's Eddystone tower could not be cited as affording a parallel, for there the rock is not submerged even at high-water, while the problem of the Bell Rock was to build a tower of masonry on a sunken reef far distant from land, covered at every tide to a depth of twelve feet or more, and having thirty-two fathoms' depth of water within a mile of its eastern edge.
Besides laying, boring, trenailing, wedging, and grouting thirty two stones, several other operations were proceeded with on the rock at low-water, when some of the artificers were employed at the railways, and at high-water at the beacon-house.
It had another disadvantage: it was situated in a flat mud bottom, below high-water mark, whereas Quincy stands high up on the slope of a hill.
Afar Jong could see how shells littered the sand below high-water mark, proof of abundant life.
At dawn they had all seen the fringe of soaked grain lining the high-water mark, and knew the worst had come.
I swam ashore, parked my scuba equipment above the high-water mark and made my way to the flensing shed, keeping its bulk between the light and myself as I went.
A flicker of movement up the interior slope above the high-water mark had caught his eye.
With the damaged boat foremost in their minds they delightedly dragged the treasure above high-water mark, and Malmstrom wrote his name in the sand beside it.
On the bottom of the panel is a faint line of discoloration, the high-water mark of an old flood from the steam tunnels coiled just beneath the basement floor, a stain unpainted since Taft’.
The high-water mark in recent history is the 1864 Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX, the pope who also convened the Vatican Council at which the doctrine of papal infallibility was, at his insistence, first proclaimed.