Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The tide which occurs at or soon after the new and full moon, and rises higher than common tides, the ebb sinking correspondingly lower.
  • noun Hence Figuratively, any great flood or influx.

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Examples

  • The regulations also ban lead shot being used to kill any birds below the coastal spring-tide high-water mark or in specified wetlands.

    Law banning use of lead shot in duck hunts ignored James Meikle 2010

  • We reflect this day on the essence of intimacy, from its origins in the spring-tide of youth to an afterward secured in distant mist – in awe for the reason and to what end it endures.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • This turf graciously invites me to seek my brother Cyclopes for revel in the spring-tide.

    The Cyclops 2008

  • This turf graciously invites me to seek my brother Cyclopes for revel in the spring-tide.

    The Cyclops 2008

  • It was a high spring-tide, as evening floods are always there.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • That spring-tide, amidst of April, she followed the witch-wife down to the Sending Boat for the third time; and there went everything as erst, and she deemed now that the lesson was well learned, and that she was well-nigh as wise as the witch herself therein.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Now was the winter gone and the spring-tide come again, and with the blossoming of the earth blossomed Birdalone also.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • For though wed to a maiden in spring-tide youthfully budding,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • For though wed to a maiden in spring-tide youthfully budding,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Fitzpiers was at the spring-tide of a sentiment that Grace was a necessity of his existence.

    The Woodlanders 2006

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