English edit

Noun edit

flood-tide (plural flood-tides)

  1. Alternative form of flood tide
    • 1877, R. Elton Smile [Elton Romeo Smilie], chapter I, in The Manatitlans; or a Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A., Buenos Ayres: Calla Derecho, Imprenta De Razon, page 14:
      May 29.—This morning we reached a sand-spit formed by a confluent stream, upon which the receding waters had left a wood-drift well suited for the streamer's use, having been forced by the jam of flood-tide high out of the current.