Freshet

Quick meaning: Freshet is a noun meaning A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw.

Meaning

A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw.

More Meanings

1. (poetic) A small stream, especially one flowing into the sea.

Example Sentences

Between the curbs and the snow banks a freshet of clear blue water rises. Within me a freshet that chokes the narrow gorge of my veins.

“My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. …”

“His arrival upon any scene was never in the smallest degree uproarious, and still less was it in the least mild or serene; yet he came into a settled circle like a freshet of tumbling water into a still pool!”

We may find a dozen big catfish lying in the belly of the net, or a couple of walleyed pike, or some other kind of fresh-water fish. A freshet brought them down, and they were making their way back up the river, and they hit the net.

Word Forms

• freshets

Synonyms for freshet

Depending on context, synonyms include spate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spate, flooding, flood, bulb, augmentation, floodwater.

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