half-flood

The best time for ascending is half-flood, for descending half-ebb; if the water be too high, the bush chokes the way; if too low, the craft grounds.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The tide was on the ebb, so he must make sure that he returned before it reached half-flood.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

The tide was on the ebb, so he must make sure that he returned before it reached half-flood.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

The plan called for a dark night, and for half-flood an hour before dawn; nature would supply those sooner or later, following her immutable laws.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

It was about half-flood when I reached the _Bonne Esperance_.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 375, June 13, 1829 Various

It extends more than a mile into the ocean, and at half-flood becomes an island.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 Various

It will be readily seen, then, that the flow of the current will be slack about the time of high and low water, so that its maximum rate will be at half-ebb and half-flood.

The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns Henry C. Adams 1912

At a little more than half-flood in fine weather the seamless ocean joins over the reef, and at high-water springs it is buried sixteen feet.

Records of a Family of Engineers 1912

No, the tide at that hour had scarcely passed half-flood.

The Ship of Stars Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

She saw the curded tide, now at half-flood, boiling around the Raney; she saw the little craft swoop down on it, half buried in the seas through which she was being impelled; she saw distinctly one form, and one only, on the deck beside the helm -- a form that flung up its hands as it shot by the smooth edge of the reef, a hand's-breadth off destruction.

I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903