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noun

Freshet n.

A stream of fresh water. (Obs.)

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 at highest."

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Etymology of 'Freshet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Freshet" Quotes from Famous Books

... usually clean, sweet water; every brook is a trout-brook, a mountain brook; the cold and the snow have supplied the condition of a high latitude; no stagnation, no corruption, comes downstream now as on a summer freshet. Winter comes down, liquid and repentant. Indeed, it is more than water that runs then: it is frost subdued; it is spring triumphant. No obsolete watercourses now. The larger creeks seek out their abandoned beds, return to the haunts of their youth, and linger fondly there. ...

— A Year in the Fields • John Burroughs

... highfalutin, I submit the following: "The spirit of departed day had joined communion with the myriad ghosts of centuries, and four full hours fled into eternity before the citizens of many parts of the town found out there was a freshet ...

— The Verbalist • Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)

... here is very shaky, and the swamp beneath the shores of the trees is softer than porridge. A long time ago, during a heavy spring freshet, the river became dammed about a quarter of a mile from the lake, and the whole body of water was turned in another direction. But instead of flowing over the land, it sank into the great mass of soft bog below, and forced its way underground, ...

— The Four Canadian Highwaymen • Joseph Edmund Collins

... answered Andrew with a laugh. "Look over there on the hill—see those two old locusts? They are fern palms and those scrub oaks are palmettos. The white frost makes the meadow a lagoon and this rock is the pier of my bridge where I came out to watch one night to test the force of a freshet. Over there the light from Mrs. Matilda's fires is the construction camp and beyond that hill is my bungalow. That's the same old moon that's rising relentlessly to murder the stars again. Do you want to stay and ...

— Andrew the Glad • Maria Thompson Daviess

... to end was one seething storm of heated, typically "Southern" argument and prophecy. Friendships were being made and broken, over questions as to whether the river had risen four inches the past hour, or only one, and as to whether this freshet were more important than the ...

— The Torrent - Entre Naranjos • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

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