half-tide

noun

The tide halfway between flood and ebb.

Meanings

noun
  1. The tide halfway between flood and ebb.
adjectivehalf-tide (not comparable)
  1. not comparableLeft dry during such a tide.

    "[...] her middle structure was like a half-tide rock awash upon a coast."

    1919, Joseph Conrad, Typhoon
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APA

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Chicago

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