freshet
Use Freshet in a sentence
ɪt noun
1.
a freshwater stream flowing into the sea.
2.
a sudden rise in the level of a stream, or a flood, caused by heavy rains or the rapid melting of snow and ice.
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| —n | |
| 1. | the sudden overflowing of a river caused by heavy rain or melting snow |
| 2. | a stream of fresh water emptying into the sea |
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Freshet
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Word Origin & History
freshet
1596, "stream flowing into the sea," from fresh in a now obsolete sense of "flood, stream of fresh water." Meaning "flood caused by rain or melting snow" is from 1654.
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Example sentences
The trickle of commentaries, if not yet a flood, is becoming a freshet.
Being creatures that enjoy some salt in the water, they have moved out with the freshet.
Flow augmentation is designed to simulate a natural freshet that helps speed fish on their journey between dams and to the sea.
Radio telemetry transmitters were not planted in rainbow trout redds to evaluate this year's freshet.
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