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ˈwater-flood
[OE. wæterflód: see water n. and flood n. Cf. MHG. waȥȥervluot (mod.G. wasserflut), MLG. watarvlôt, ON. vatnsflóð.]
1. A moving flood or overflowing of water, a tempestuous sea.
c893ælfred Oros. i. vi. 36 On þæs Ambictiones tide wurdon swa mycele wæterflod ᵹeond ealle world. 1535Coverdale Ps. xxix. 10 The Lorde stilleth [1539 Bible sitteth aboue] the water floude. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxix. 20. 261 They see the ungodly rush uppon them without staye, and too rage like a waterflud. a1593Marlowe Ovid's Elegies ii. x. 14 Why addst thou..to the vast deepe sea fresh water flouds? 1871Macduff Mem. Patmos xx. 273 Not like the abrupt and sweeping waterflood, but rather like the silent dew as it distills imperceptibly on blade and flower. 1902Monthly Rev. Aug. 171 Her hair was all about him like a water-flood; her kisses on his brow.
†2. collectively. Water as opposed to land. Obs.
c1200Ormin 17567 O lifft, o land, o waterrflod, Wiþ fele kinne shaffte. 1390Gower Conf. III. 92 For riht as veines ben of blod In man, riht so the water flod Therthe of his cours makth ful of veines.
3. A body or mass of water in flood.
c1435Torr. Portugal 1872 A Grype..A way..bare her yong son Ouer a water fflood, Over in to a wyldernes There seynt Antony ermet was. 1864Swinburne Atalanta 1380 O that I now, I too were By deep wells and water-floods. 1917O. Wildridge Captains & Co. ix. 108 And now, as the tug drew near, there trailed across the intervening strip of water-flood a snatch of ‘Auld Lang Syne’.
4. Oil Industry. Water-flooding; an instance of this. Freq. attrib.
1928Trans. AIME Petroleum Div. LXXVII. 334, I was interested..to see what the pumping problem would be if it was later decided to mine a water-flood property. 1946Producers Monthly Dec. 20/1 Throughout the water flood, measurements were taken of the pressure distribution. 1977Offshore Engineer Apr. 20/1 (Advt.), In waterflood and other really tough uses, the McEvoy Super Mudwonder proves better than valves B or C, or any other competitor. |