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Definition of Low water
1. Noun. The lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide.
Definition of Low water
1. Noun. The location of low tide on a coastal area. ¹
2. Noun. The lowest stage of a river. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Low Water
Literary usage of Low water
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Coast Pilot: Atlantic Coast. Part IV. From Point Judith to New by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Herbert Gouverneur Ogden, John Ross, Herbert Cornelius Graves, Harry L. Ford (1899)
"Low-water slack occurs about 51m. after low water at Sandy Hook; ... 18m.
after low water at Governors Island). Both ebb and flood currents Appear first on ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The design was, accordingly, modified in 1902, by commencing the stepped courses
of large stones at 12 ft. below mean low water on each slope, instead of at ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"... of property in the same, and that the navigable waters extended, not only to
low water, but embraced all the soil within the limits of high-water mark. ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"The outer opening of the trunk was about a foot or a little less above the mean
low-water mark of the river, in which the tide ebbs and flows. ..."
5. Annual Report by Rhode Island, Commissioners of Shell Fisheries (1911)
"Evidence that formerly a pipe was once laid out to beyond low water. No. 2.
6-inch cast iron pipe, discharging on beach a little above low water. No. 3. ..."
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