low-water mark
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low-water mark
noun low-water marks
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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.
Opposite: high-water mark
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The nadir or lowest point of something.
Opposite: high-water mark, acme
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