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Flood tide

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  1. 1
    The period between low tide and the next high tide of the sea as the water flows toward the shore

    "Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, I perceived that the ship swinging to her anchor with the flood-tide, was now obliquely pointing towards the open ocean."

  2. 2
    the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) wordnet
  3. 3
    The highest point of something; a climax. broadly

    "It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side."

  4. 4
    the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding wordnet

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