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freshet
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freshet \Fresh"et\, n. [OE. fresche flood + -et. See Fresh , a.] A stream of fresh water. [Obs.] --Milton. A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is ...
Wikipedia
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The term freshet is most commonly used to describe a spring thaw resulting from snow and ice melt in rivers located in the northern latitudes of North America . A spring freshet can sometimes last several weeks on large river systems, resulting in significant ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "stream of fresh water; stream flowing into the sea," from obsolete fresh (n.) "a stream in flood" (1530s), also "mingling of fresh and salt water," from fresh (adj.1). Old English had fersceta in the same sense. Meaning "small flood or increased ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow [syn: spate ]
Usage examples of freshet.
Freshet or purling brook, of shell or fin, And exquisitest name, for which was drained Pontus, and Lucrine bay, and Afric coast.
It drew him to a thicket of aspen trees, beyond that to a tangle of briars, and then to the clustering stands of sweet pepperbushes bordering a small freshet.
When the dam is built the beavers often dig a channel around either end to carry off the surplus water, and so prevent their handiwork being washed away in a freshet.
Now, in that Japanese sea, the days in summer are as freshets of effulgences.
The nearest railroad connection was Glendive, seventy-six miles up the latter stream, though steamboats took advantage of freshets in the river to transport immense supplies from lower points on the Missouri where there were rail connections.
Nay, What makes this insolent and comely stream Of appetence, this freshet of desire (Milk from the wild breasts of the wilful Day!
We climbed a granite ledge, thick with moss and lichen, wet with the omnipresent flow of water, then followed the path of a descending freshet, brushing aside long grass that pulled at our legs, dodging the drooping branches of mountain laurel and the thick-leaved rhododendrons.