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- noun A
mark indicating theheight reached by thewaters in a previousflood .
Etymologies
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flood + mark
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Examples
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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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