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(Se-mark,) Sie-mark, n. Also: sae-, sea-mark. [e.m.E. see-mark (1485); Se n.¹ and Mark n.¹] The high-water mark. = Flude-mark n. Also fig. 1545 Prestwick B. Rec. 60.
They saw the fens maid apoun wryk … inwyth the sae mark 1600-1610 Melvill 486.
The sie … debordet and ran upe abon the sie-mark hier nor at anie stream-tyd athort all the cost syde of Fyff 16.. Hist. Kennedy 14.
The Lady Couff wes slayne within the sie-mark a1633 Hope Major Pract. I 213.
That salmon fischeing within the sea mark or flood mark perteins only to the king … and abone the sea mark any man being infeft in his land adjacent to the watter … hes right to the same 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 325.
As the houses of sand within the sea-mark, which the children of men are building 1690 Shields Grievances and Sufferings 35.
Most inhumanely drowned at stakes within the sea-mark, two women at Wigtounfig. 1664 Pitcairn Spiritual Sacrifice 288.
It is unnatural cruelty … not … to awaken those ye see sleeping securely within the sea-mark of Gods displeasure