low-water mark

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low-water mark

1. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) the level reached by seawater at low tide or by other stretches of water at their lowest level

2. the lowest point or level; nadir

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Noun	1.	low-water mark - an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything nadir adversity, hard knocks, hardship - a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"
	2.	low-water mark - a line marking the lowest level reached watermark, water line - a line marking the level reached by a body of water

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In moisture, however, it is otherwise; from December to May is the period of the rains, and during this time the river slowly rises until it attains a height of nearly forty feet above its low-water mark.

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Seven miles to the north of Venice the banks of sand which nearer the city rise little above low-water mark attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.

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No other company was in the house than the landlord, his wife, and a grizzled male creature, the "Jack" of the little causeway, who was as slimy and smeary as if he had been low-water mark too.

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