white water
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noun
1.
frothy water, as in whitecaps and rapids.
2.
light-colored seawater over a shoal, sandy bottom, etc.
Origin:
1580–90
1580–90
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| white water | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a stretch of water with a broken foamy surface, as in rapids |
| 2. | light-coloured sea water, esp over shoals or shallows |
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White water
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
Example sentences
He must be the wielder of axe and of paddle, the rider of fiery horses, the master of the craft that leaps through white water.
Filled with white water, as though heaped with snow.
Bill ran out over the surging logs, picked a big spruce and stayed on it through the white water.
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