Delaware objected because the construction would require dredging of underwater land within Delaware's borders, which extend to the low-tide mark of the New Jersey shore.

This may be an indication that the Wall was taken down to the low-tide mark, as it was at Segedunum, at the eastern end of the Wall.

The dock symbolised that jurisdiction by being located just beyond the low-tide mark in the river.

The Admiralty only had jurisdiction over crimes on the sea, so the dock was located within their jurisdiction by being located far enough offshore as to be beyond the low-tide mark.

It grows only on the direct shoreline of the lake, occupying a seven-foot semi-aquatic zone between the high- and low-tide marks.

Although the tide was already low, there seemed to be more sand shining golden now beyond the furthest low-tide mark.

The Cunjevoi, often known colloquially as "cunjie", is a Tunicate or sea squirt, Pyura stolonifera, found around the edge of the low-tide mark that often forms mats over the rocks.

Most species grow near tropical and subtropical shores below the low-tide mark.

A single browser, the limpet Patinigera polaris, lived mainly below low-tide mark but emerged to scour the whole zone; those close to sea level were predated by dominican gulls Larus dominicanus.

But Massachusetts in the 1640's granted private ownership down to the low-tide mark, exclusive to all but those engaged in "fishing, fowling and navigation."