High-water Synonyms

His high-water trousers exposed black silk socks with little ladders up the sides, held in place with garters, something Dean hadn't seen in decades.

Near the lake the valley was formerly swampy, and at high-water the lake overflowed into it.

Most of the rivers flowing into the Gulf are obstructed by sand-bars and navigable only during high-water from January to April.

The literary and artistic value of many of the Robin Hood ballads cannot be pronounced considerable, but eight of them attain the high-water mark of their class.

Each of the larger streams, as well as a large proportion of the smaller ones, is accompanied by a belt of bottom land, of greater or less width, lying low as regards the stream, and liable to overflow at times of high water.