Definitions
the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow
Word origin
From Old French freschete, a diminutive of fres (“fresh”) via its feminine form fresche.
Used in a sentence
““My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. …””
““His arrival upon any scene was never in the smallest degree uproarious, and still less was it in the least mild or serene; yet he came into a settled circle like a freshet of tumbling water into a still pool!””
“Between the curbs and the snow banks a freshet of clear blue water rises. Within me a freshet that chokes the narrow gorge of my veins.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Sudden stream flood”7 letters
02“Spring flood”7 letters
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