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Definition of Tidemark
1. Noun. Indicator consisting of a line at the highwater or low-water limits of the tides.
Definition of Tidemark
1. Noun. a line (of seaweed or differently coloured sand etc) on the shore showing the level of high or low tide ¹
2. Noun. (context: by extension) any mark showing the limit of some past activity ¹
3. Noun. (humorous) a line of scum left on a bath tub when the water is drained away ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tidemark
1. a mark showing the highest or lowest point of a tide [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tidemark
Literary usage of Tidemark
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The East Neuk of Fife: Its History and Antiquities by Walter Wood (1887)
"It divides into two portions, one of which comes straight down to the shore, and
is connected with a mass of tufa within tidemark ; the other holds a course ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1862)
"... And make them cry from out his song, with never dying power ; To know the
glory of his age—to feel its sorrow so That his own verse shall tidemark be of ..."
3. The Nineteenth Century (1885)
"... the superb essay on Mirabeau, which remains as a landmark or a tidemark in
the history of his opinions and the development of his powers. ..."
4. Man and nature; or, Physical geography as modified by human action by George Perkins Marsh (1864)
"Much the largest proportion of the lands so reclaimed, though for the most part
lying above low-water tidemark, are at a lower level than the Lincolnshire ..."
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