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quarter flood
1. The flowing in of the tide. Often in phrases, ebb and flood, †tide of flood; also quarter flood, half flood, full flood, top of flood. Cf. young flood n. at young adj. and n.1 Compounds 6.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > ebb and flow
ebb and flooda1000
tidea1500
recourse1549
flux and reflux1612
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > high
main floodc1303
full flooda1375
full sea1390
high water1422
full water1498
full tide1538
high tide1546
tide1570
headwater1594
young flood1611
pleni-tide1617
top of flood1867
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > newly-flowing
flood1559
young flood1611
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1031 Whenne þæt flod byþ ealra hehst & ealra fullost.
a1000 Battle of Maldon 65 Þar com flowende flod æfter ebban.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 177 For swiche flode, and for swich ebbinge þe prophete nemmeð þis woreld se.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 20 Heo..wende uorþ with god wynd & wel dryuyng flode.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2745 At þe fulle flod þei ferden to sayle.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. iii. 47 For Swlway was at þare passyng All Eb, þat þai fand þan on Flud.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xcii. 114 They cast anker and abode the fludde.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. x. 47 Flood is when the water beginneth to rise, which is young flood as we call it, then quarter flood, halfe flood, full Sea, still water, or high water.
1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 323 The fish enter with the tide of flood.
1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 175 The flood runs 3 hours.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) Top of flood or high-water.
figurative.c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems 77 Ebbe after floode of al prosperite.1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Duke of Glocester f. ix Whan Fortunes flud ran with full streame.a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. ii. 271 There is a Tide in the affayres of men, Which taken at the Flood, leades on to Fortune. View more context for this quotation1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs Pref. The empire..was at the highest flood of humane prosperity.1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 143 It seldom happens, but that a flood of words have an ebb of sense.a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1873) III. iii. 178 The flood of material prosperity had fairly set in.
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quarter flood
quarter flood n. chiefly Nautical (now rare) the state or time when the tide is about a fourth of the way between low tide and high water (see quot. 1867).
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a1450 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Bodl. 619) (1872) ii. Suppl. §46. 59 Half flode, or quarter flode.
1582 R. Madox Diary 2 Apr. in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) 101 At a quarter flud we went a head with the mayn topsayl and so lowsyng we towed down past the Retch.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 17 [The sea] flowes, quarter floud, high water, or a still water.
1775 Let. 23 Apr. in J. Zevin Social Stud. for Twenty-First Cent. (2000) i. vi. 118 I..landed them on a point of marsh or mudland which is overflowed with the last quarter flood.
1801 Ld. Nelson 15 Aug. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 460 At last quarter-flood, at the Pier-head.
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.
1910 Times 11 July 3/2 The tide was last quarter flood of about 1½ knots force.
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