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
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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
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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
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This turf graciously invites me to seek my brother Cyclopes for revel in the spring-tide.
The Cyclops 2008
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This turf graciously invites me to seek my brother Cyclopes for revel in the spring-tide.
The Cyclops 2008
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It was a high spring-tide, as evening floods are always there.
Westward Ho! 2007
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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.
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Now was the winter gone and the spring-tide come again, and with the blossoming of the earth blossomed Birdalone also.
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For though wed to a maiden in spring-tide youthfully budding,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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For though wed to a maiden in spring-tide youthfully budding,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Fitzpiers was at the spring-tide of a sentiment that Grace was a necessity of his existence.
The Woodlanders 2006
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