mid-stream

mid-stream (uncountable)

1. 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.

   • 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7:

     We steamed easily across the first part of the Tay Bridge, and then after passing over the long spans in mid-stream we coasted smoothly down the 1 in 114 gradient, and around the sweeping curve through Esplanade Station.

   • 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,...