freshet
英 ['freʃɪt]
美['frɛʃɪt]
- n. 洪水；淡水水流
英英释意
- 1. the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow
英文词源
- freshet (n.)
- 1590s, "stream of fresh water; stream flowing into the sea," from obsolete fresh (n.) "a stream in flood" (1530s), also "mingling of fresh and salt water," from fresh (adj.1). Old English had fersceta in the same sense. Meaning "small flood or increased flow of an ebb tide caused by rain or melting snow" is from 1650s.