Crossword clues for highwater
The Collaborative International Dictionary
highwater \highwater\, high water \high water\n.
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the tide when the water is highest; high tide. [WordNet sense 1]
Syn: high tide, high water.
Water at its highest level, as in a river during a flood.
Wiktionary
n. the state of the tide when the water is at its highest
WordNet
n. the tide when the water is highest [syn: high tide, high water] [ant: low tide]
Wikipedia
Highwater is a 2008 documentary film centered on surfing's Triple Crown competitions, the professional surfing tour's final three competitions held each year on the North Shore of Oahu. The film is directed by Dana Brown, son of famed surfer and filmmaker Bruce Brown.
Usage examples of "highwater".
Bull set himself up on a purely consultative basis at an estate he had bought at Highwater that straddled the border of northern Vermont and his native Canada.
Pierce to his house on Highwater Road for Sunday tea, on the pretext of discussing the purchase of a fighting dog from Mr.
Heaps of flood-borne brush were banked along the highwater mark, and what land was not flooded was pitted with small lakes permanent enough to grow reeds in profusion.
On the shore, following the curve of the bay, were the crazy, ramshackle huts erected on long bamboo poles below the highwater mark, with their suspended nets to trap the tidal catch of fish, and half-way along the beach a curved breakwater hooked far out into the bay, sheltering launches and fishing vessels, the tented prahus and the double outrigger canoes too large to be dragged up past the fishing-huts.