Definition of "spring tide" []

• The exceptionally high and low tides that occur at the time of the new moon or the full moon when the sun, moon, and earth are approximately aligned. (noun)
• A great flood or rush, as of emotion. (noun)

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• "At a place 4 mile off called Sea Cume the Rockes are so Craggy and ye Creekes of land so many yt ye sea is very turbulent – I pick'd shells and it being a spring tide I saw ye sea beat upon ye Rockes at least 20 yards with Such a ffoame or ffroth – and at another place the rockes had so large a Cavity and Hollow yt when ye Sea flowed in, it runne almost round and Sounded like some hall or high arch."
• "From Redruth I went to Pensands 15 mile and passed by ye ruines of Great ffortification or Castle on a high hill about 3 mile from Redruth and passed to Hailes and soe went by ye sea side a great way, it being spring tide it was a full sea."