The occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow.
1 The roar of the freshet awoke Nan in her bed before daybreak.
2 They leaped in over the table like a freshet over a dam.
3 Yet the freshet rose higher than that, and swept the bridge away.
4 We have had a drought so long we can stand a freshet .
5 Here they washed themselves and drank their fill at the in-falling freshet .
6 What, then, could be the origin of this sudden and singular freshet ?
7 It's saved us that much, but the freshet water won't last long.
8 Now the ledges were buried deep under the immense volume of the freshet .
9 One of them occurred in Ohio at the time of a spring freshet .
10 The stream was in a freshet , and not to be waded.
11 Dry beds of streams should be avoided; they are subject to sudden freshet .
12 The street that never sleeps was tonight a human spill-way, churning in freshet .
13 With the added danger of freshet water, the work went on.
14 Therefore, take it altogether, I consider that freshet a capital thing.
15 There is a freshet , and the ferryman was drowned last night.
16 A freshet had to float out thirty million feet of logs.
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