dead low water
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A boat would just float there comfortably I supposed, at dead low water.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
It was dead low water now, and the ship was heeled at an angle, the propeller showing clean.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
It was still pitch dark, but the time of dead low water made it absolutely necessary that operations should commence ere the sun rose.
From The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Besides it’s dead low water at nine to-night, and they couldn’t 233 get a boat within a mile of the Shark’s Tooth without staving a hole in her.
From The Motor Girls on the Coast or, The Waif From the Sea by Margaret Penrose
She would not be seen again till dead low water.
From A Sea Queen's Sailing by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
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