tideline

/ ˈtaɪdˌlaɪn /

noun

1. the mark or line left by the tide when it retreats from its highest point

Example Sentences

Perched on the balcony of Maddock drugstore, the Peterson Brothers photographer also captured a view of Seattle’s first major public work, completed in 1877: the regrading of a stump-filled, uneven pathway into smoothly graded Front Street, elevated on timbers above the Elliott Bay tideline.

From Seattle Times

About 60% of us in Wales live in coastal areas, with some communities living below the high tideline.

From BBC

Placozoans use their cilia to crawl randomly along rocks at the tideline until they detect microalgae and stop to graze.

From Science Magazine

If the world beyond sport has begun to feel like some horrendous category mistake, a collapse into powerlessness, 30 years of structural change compacted across six months of confusion, then football is as ever in the lead, running on ahead of the tideline.

From The Guardian

Mr. Griffin’s Four Seasons arrangement inspired Jeff Greene, a billionaire Palm Beach real estate investor who owns the Tideline Ocean Resort & Spa next door to the Four Seasons.

From New York Times