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Definition of Freshets

Freshet
Freshet Fresh"et, n. [OE. fresche flood + -et. See Fresh, a.] 1. A stream of fresh water. [Obs.] --Milton. 2. A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. --Longfellow.

Meaning of Freshets from wikipedia

- and cyclones can lead to freshet events. The magnitude of freshets depends on snow ac****ulation and temperature. Smaller freshets have been ****ociated with...
- gap is most often carved by water erosion from a freshet, stream or a river. Gaps created by freshets are often, if not normally, devoid of water through...
- in seaquakes, waterspouts, artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools...
- to the upper river, the section stretching from Yichang to Chongqing. Freshets from Himalayan snowmelt created treacherous seasonal currents. But summer...
- channel year-round, and are capable of halting most of the river's annual freshets. However, high and low water cycles of the Missourinotably the protracted...
- advantage is achieved F38.03.009 1935 4.144 7.126 799 854 Dew — is the Freshet in the Gr**** S06c.05.015 1914 2.044 5.044 1097 1102 Did life's penurious...
- man-made floods, known as pond freshets, created by successively breaking milldams along the length of the river. These freshets could carry up to 800 skiffs...
- during the rainy season to a mean of 10 ft (3.0 m), and a minimum during freshets of 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m). In its upper reaches the river is generally known...
- drowned and her body had then been flushed out months later by a spring freshet. During the investigation into Jepson's disappearance in 1950, journalists...
- white-water sports. On salmonid rivers special releases (in Britain called freshets) are made to encourage natural migration behaviours in fish and to provide...