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freshet|ˈfrɛʃɪt|
Also 8 erron. fresh shot.
[f. fresh n.1 + -et1; or possibly a. OF. freschet adj., dim. of freis fresh a. (cf. fontaine frechette, 16th c. in Godef.).]
1. A small stream of fresh water. Cf. fresh n.1 3. Obs. exc. poet.
1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 113 Freshets distilling from the said mountaines..do fall into the lake. 1611Sir T. Dale in A. Brown Genesis U.S. (1890) I. 507 A shallop necessarie and propper to discover freshetts, Rivers and Creekes. 1674J. Josselyn Voy. New Eng. 160 Gardens, well watered with springs and small freshets. 1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. IV. xiii. 215 The Traveller..skirts, on the dry lea, many a little freshet. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid i. 168 A cave..sweet Fountain freshets within it.
2. A stream or rush of fresh water flowing into the sea. Cf. fresh n.1 2.
1596L. Keymis in Hakluyt's Voy. (1600) III. 673 The freshets..grow strong and swift, setting directly off to sea against the wind. 1721Bailey, Fresh Shot..is when any great River falls into the Sea. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) I. vii. 238 He hugged the cross freshets instead of striking out into the smoother water.
3. A flood or overflowing of a river caused by heavy rains or melted snow.
1654E. Johnson Wond.-wrkg. Provid. (1867) 45 Her scituation is neere to a River, whose strong freshet at breaking up of Winter filleth all her Bankes. 1784M. Cutler in Life, Jrnls. & Corr. (1888) I. 100 The freshet in the river..was so sudden that cattle..were in danger of being drowned. 1837C. T. Jackson 1st Rep. Geol. Maine 109 The loose materials..are deposited along river courses, especially during freshets. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 142 In a flood, or freshet, the water is always highly charged with detritus.
transf. and fig.1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. (1883) 196 A feast of reason and a regular ‘freshet’ of soul. 1872Mark Twain Innoc. Abr. xvii. 116, I never saw such a freshet of loveliness before. 1886E. S. Phelps Burglars in Par. ix. 155 Freshets of circulars poured over the land.
attrib.1865M. C. Harris St. Philip's xxiv. 173 Rough bridges..left gaping from freshet-time to freshet-time. 1875in Buckland Log-bk. 364 It is always in a freshet season that the Channel cuts down the Frampton side. 1895J. Winsor Mississ. Basin 14 Evans..puts the ordinary freshet rise at twenty feet.
Hence ˈfreshet v. trans., to flood as with a freshet; in quot. fig.
1865Mrs. Whitney Gayworthys II. 179 The winds..fresheted all the waysides..with a down-pour of colour. |