low water

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low water (countable and uncountable, plural low waters)

  1. The location of low tide in a coastal area.
    • 1953 February, H. A. Vallance, “To Brighton through the Shoreham Gap”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
      The railway then follows the widening estuary of the river, which at high tide has the appearance of a lake, but at low water presents a rather cheerless expanse of dark mud.
  2. The lowest stage of a river.
  3. The temporary situation of having little money.

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  • (having little money): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary