Definition of "half-tide" [half-tide]

• Half the duration of a single tide; the state of the tide when it is half-way between ebb and flood. (noun)
• Half covered by the tide; washed by the waves: as, wet as a half-tide rock: also applied to a low-built vessel over which waves are likely to break.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "And it must be remembered that the cliff exhibits an intensifying feature which some of those are without — sheer perpendicularity from the half-tide level."
• "At low tide there were acres of mud with screeching gulls scavenging; and at high tide steamerfuls of tourists charging past - with or without thumping music - for a quick trip up through the half-tide lock at Richmond into deeper waters above."
• "The boats put off about half-an-hour before midnight; but, owing to the darkness, and tide and half-tide, which must always make night attacks so uncertain on the coasts of the Channel, the divisions separated."