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• half tide
  half tide

  noun

  the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
• half-tide
  half-tide

  noun

  the state of the tide between flood and ebb

half tide

American  

noun

1. the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.

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half-tide British  

noun

1. the state of the tide between flood and ebb

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Etymology

Origin of half tide

First recorded in 1625–35

Example Sentences

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half tide half-tide

I have been waiting here since half tide and there's nothing doing.

From The Lovely Lady by Gordon Grant

A long gangway reached to a float for boats; here the water was deep enough to dive into at half tide.

From We Three by Henry Hutt

I. Brook where shallops can enter at half tide.

From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02 by Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy) Otis

Passing through it at half tide with an average sized canoe, we were compelled to wade and drag it over a mile.

From Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia by Newton H. (Newton Henry) Chittenden

It was now about half tide, and seven o'clock in the evening.

From Michael's Crag by Grant Allen

That current may still be at half-tide: Almost twice as many people came through in 2019.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2021

We found from our nautical almanac that it would be half-tide at nine o'clock in the forenoon; and it was not yet seven in the morning by the corrected time.

From Down South or, Yacht Adventure in Florida by Oliver Optic

Turning to the right again we pass Foul Holme Sand, a long narrow spit, covered at half-tide, which some day may become reclaimable.

From A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White

Unconsciously Denison gave him the steer-oar, and in a few minutes they were flying over the reef at a half-tide, and never touched anywhere.

From The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 by Louis Becke

I believe this was the only Panopaea captured in New Zealand in situ, and was about eighteen inches below the surface of the sand at half-tide mark.

From Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them by E. G. B. Moss