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ˈwater-break
†1. An irruption of water: = water-breach (water n. 20). Obs.
1513Douglas æneis ii. vi. 15 Quhen the burne on spait hurlis doun the bank, Othir throw a water brek, or spait of fluide.
2. Broken water, a piece of broken water.
1806Wordsw. Misc. Sonn. ii. xxxi. 5 Brook!..whom the curious Painter doth pursue Through rocky passes,..And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks. 1835― To May 75 Streams..Gurgling in foamy water-break, Loitering in glassy pool. 1850Clough Dipsychus ii. iv. 94 The dashing stream Stays not to pick his steps among the rocks, Or let his water-breaks be chronicled. 1855Tennyson Brook 61 And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel. 1899S. A. Brooke in L. P. Jacks Life & Lett. (1917) II. v. xxv. 512 The gay stream, which..runs from one foaming water-break to another.
3. A breakwater. ? nonce-use.
1875tr. Comte de Paris' Hist. Civ. War America I. 448 This island..stretches in front of the entrance of Pensacola Bay; and at the extremity of this natural waterbreak stands Fort Pickens. |