Definition of Freshet. Meaning of Freshet. Synonyms of Freshet

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Definition of Freshet

Freshet
Freshet Fresh"et, n. [OE. fresche flood + -et. See Fresh, a.] 1. A stream of fresh water. [Obs.] --Milton. 2. 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. --Longfellow.

Meaning of Freshet from wikipedia

- The term freshet is most commonly used to describe a snowmelt, an annual high water event on rivers resulting from snow and river ice melting. A spring...
- amongst others, as brook, cr****, rivulet, rill, run, tributary, feeder, freshet, narrow river, and streamlet. The flow of a stream is controlled by three...
- in seaquakes, waterspouts, artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools...
- gap is most often carved by water erosion from a freshet, stream or a river. Gaps created by freshets are often, if not normally, devoid of water through...
- the prevailing current when the tide is high. However, during the spring freshet, this reversal is often surp****ed by the downstream volume of water. The...
- The floodgates of the Grand Falls generating station, during the annual freshet of the Saint John River....
- River dried up in many places every summer at the conclusion of the spring freshet from the Rocky Mountains. Constant, steady flows down the Qu'Appelle River...
- (restricted by icing) of temperate latitude canals which suffered ice and freshet flooding damages with dreary regularity. When floods did affect railways...
- Floods in the United States before 1900 is a list of flood events that were of significant impact to the country, before 1900. Floods are generally caused...
- to the upper river, the section stretching from Yichang to Chongqing. Freshets from Himalayan snowmelt created treacherous seasonal currents. But summer...