Definition of "high water" [high water]

• See high tide. (noun)
• The state of a body of water that has reached its highest level. (noun)

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• "I received information that Averill had started back on the same route he came, but was stopped by high water at Craig's Creek some twelve or fifteen miles from Salem."
• "Survivors of Pickett's brigade and ex-Union troops from the Philadelphia Brigade Association formed two lines and walked fifty feet north and south to the wall on Cemetery Ridge which marked the so-called high water mark of the Confederacy."
• "It was near high water when he reached the shore at Hengistbury Head."