freshets in English
noun
1
the 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.
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1. I see far inland the banks anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets.
2. Hydrologically, this reach of the Columbia is tidally influenced, but is also significantly Backwatered by the Columbia River freshets in …
3. REES It had been half full when little Terence Reilly fell in, for that was the time of the Backwater in the spring freshets