a 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 load is moved to one side, and this transient part of the load is called a flooding.