freshet

IPA: frˈɛʃʌt

Examples of "freshet" in Sentences

'freshet' is coming down from the up country to visit us.
Yet the freshet rose higher than that, and swept the bridge away.
"By the 'freshet' bein 'over I judged he meant the tide bein' out.
It was evident that, what in the language of the country is called a freshet was commencing.
Much as one might want to avoid an annual freshet of legalism, it is very hard to argue that there is not.
She had picked up a peavey one of the timbermen had left on this bank and was using is as a staff as she watched the "freshet" start.
There was nothing the matter with the director's plans on this occasion; every detail of the "freshet" had been made ready for with exactness and with prodigious regard to detail.
So when some professional friends of his called him up, one day, after a feast of reason and a regular "freshet" of soul which had lasted two or three hours, he read them these verses.
The "freshet" above, an archaic term today, usually referred to a river overflow from a spring thaw accompanied by heavy rains, although, as in this case, it was sometimes used to refer to flood conditions at any time of year.