mid-stream
English
Noun
mid-stream (uncountable)
- Alternative form of midstream
- 1800, Joseph Benson, The life of the Rev. John W. de la Flechere, page 16:
- So I was constrained to turn again to the mid-stream.
- 2010, Brig (Retd)V P Malhotra, Security and Defence Related Treaties of India, page 244:
- The boundary should be demarcated along the mid-stream of the course at the time of the demarcation of that branch of the Fenny River indicated as the Fenny River on Survey of India Map Sheet no 79 M/15.
- 2013, Odeen Ishmael, The Guyana Story:
- Starting from the coast at Point Playa, the line of boundary shall run in a straight line to the River Barima at its junction with the River Mururuma, and thence along the mid-stream of the latter river to its source, and from that point to the junction of the River Haiowa with the Amakura, and thence along the mid-stream of the Amakura to its source in the Imataka Ridge,...