Meaning of floodtime | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.”

“Each year, the river brought its deposit⟳ of rich, red silt at floodtime. When the flood⟳ receded, the Mohave planted his corn, his squash and beans.”

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