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  • noun A mark indicating the height reached by the waters in a previous flood.

Etymologies

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flood +‎ mark

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Examples

  • Wednesday in April 1705, being April 11, and there hanged within the floodmark upon a gibbet till they were dead.

    Historical Mysteries Andrew Lang 1878

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