floodtime

Definitions

1. 1

   A time (often an annual season) during which an area is flooded

   A time (often an annual season) during which an area is flooded; the season when a river floods its banks.

   • Now, on the way, he came to a big, rushing river, which neither he nor his army could cross, for it was flood-time and the water was full of dangerous whirlpools, where nixies and water wraiths lived, always ready to drown men.
   • In good seasons the stream must have been a fair little river, and during flood time it had spread all over the flat.
   • The storm that raged in him to-night could not uproot this hatred, the mightiest tree in all John’s country, all that remained to-night, in this, John’s floodtime.

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