deluge or inundation of waters. See Deluge.

Flood is also used in speaking of the tide. When the water is at lowest, it is called ebb; when rising, young flood; when at highest, high flood; when beginning to fall, ebb water.

Flood mark, the mark which the sea makes on the shore at flowing water and the highest tide, it is also called high water mark.

Flook of an anchor. See Anchor.

Flooding, among miners, a term used to express a peculiarity in the load of a mine. The load or quantity of ore is frequently intercepted in its course by the crossing of a vein of earth or stone, or some different metallic substance; in which case the lead is moved to one side, and this transient part of the load is called a flooding.