half-floodn.
The state or time of the flowing tide halfway between low and high water.
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a1450 (?a1400) Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Bodl. 619) (1872) ii. Suppl. §46. 59 And þere also maist þou wite..wheþir it be..half flode, or quarter flode..half or quarter ebbe.
1478 W. Worcester Itineraries 136 Et a halfflode vsque half ebb tunc debet nauis transire.
1780 T. A. Mann in Philos. Trans. 1779 (Royal Soc.) 69 622 To shut their gates next the sea a little after half flood.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. at Flood, When the water begins to rise, it is called a young flood, next it is quarter-flood, half-flood, and top of flood, or high water.
1895 Pall Mall Mag. Mar. 378 The river was at half flood.
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