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low-water marks

low-water marks is the plural of low-water mark.

Meaning of low-water mark

Noun

low-water mark (plural low-water marks)

  1. A mark, such as a line of seaweed, showing the lowest level reached by a body of water.
    • Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.1853, John Ruskin, “Torcello”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § I, page 11
    Antonyms:
    high-water mark
  2. (broadly) The nadir or lowest point of something.

Questions about low-water marks

What is low-water marks the plural of?
Low-water marks is the plural of low-water mark.

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