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High-water mark

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  1. 1
    A mark, such as a line of seaweed, showing the highest level reached by a body of water.

    "This imposing structure, which not only carries the single track branch line but also the gas main supplying the Forest of Dean area, cost £200,000 when it was built in 1879, and at its highest point is 70ft above the high-water mark."

  2. 2
    a line marking the highest level reached wordnet
  3. 3
    The peak, apex or acme of something; the maximum level; the furthest or highest point. broadly, figuratively

    "The Gettysburg campaign was the high-water mark of the Confederacy's invasions of the North."

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