Floodtime

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

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

In good seasons the stream must have been a fair little river, and during flood time it had spread all over the flat.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• floodtimes
• flood-time
• flood time

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include floodwater, floodflow, floodland, fore-flood, falltime, flood.

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