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noun

Tidemark n.

A mark on a shore line indicating the normal level of the water at high tide, caused by the action of the flowing water; sometimes also used for the mark left at the point of the normal low tide; called also high water mark.

(fig.) The maximum level which some activity has reached and from which it has declined; called also high water mark.

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Etymology of 'Tidemark'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tidemark" Quotes from Famous Books

... magically part and you are within sight—almost within touch—of the ocean; for in this favored land the mountains come right down to the sea and the sea comes right up to the mountains. It may be upon a tiny bay that you have emerged, with the meadows sloping straight to tidemark, and out beyond the wild fowl ...

— Roughing it De Luxe • Irvin S. Cobb

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