Definitions
a large waterfall; violent rush of water over a precipice
Word origin
The verb is derived from the noun.
Used in a sentence
“The cataracts on the Nile helped to compartment Upper Egypt.”
“This Elephantis being an Iſland, is inhabited beneath the lovveſt cataract or fall of vvater three miles, and aboue Syene 16: […]”
“[T]he Salmon ſeekes a freſher ſtreame to find / […] and ſtems the vvatry tract / VVhere Tivy falling dovvne, doth make a Cataract, / Forc't by the riſing Rocks that there her courſe oppoſe, […]”
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01“Large waterfall”8 letters
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