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freshet /ˈfrɛʃɪt /noun1The flood of a river from heavy rain or melted snow.Particularly high spring freshets would flood the quarries and put off the opening of the season....- Natural freshets, prolonged infusions of freshwater from the rain or rivers, can kill oysters in a matter of weeks, and Fox suspected that something similar had destroyed his crop.
- Remember, the Fraser cutthroat fishery is hugely impacted, if not terminated, when the freshet begins.
1.1A rush of fresh water flowing into the sea.The springs and freshets which had been loosed in the course of the city's excavation had also been trained, and streams ran cheerfully down rough, natural-looking beds carefully inset into the smooth floors of passages and halls....- This was perhaps due to the fall-spawning habit of the brook trout; the eggs of the spring-spawning rainbow and cutthroat were more likely to be washed out by freshets following spring snowmelt.
- As spring freshets go in British Columbia's Central Interior, the year 2000 was relatively sane.
Origin Late 16th century: probably from Old French freschete, diminutive of freis 'fresh'. |