¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Freshets
1. freshet [n] - See also: freshet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freshets
Literary usage of Freshets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Conventionby National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1905)
"They are put on and filled before the winter low-water season begins, and removed
before spring freshets. The frames are built of two-inch tamarac, ..."
2. Sketches in Crude Oil: Some Accidents and Incidents of the Petroleum by John James McLaurin (1896)
"The system of pond-freshets was adopted. A dam at the saw-mill near the Drake
well stored the fluid until the time agreed upon to JN WHEELER. ..."
3. History of Concord, New Hampshire: From the Original Grant in Seventeen by James Otis Lyford, Amos Hadley, Will B. Howe (1896)
"freshets. The Merrimack has ever been subject to occasional overflows, resulting
from heavy rains or ... Of these freshets we possess but imperfect records. ..."
4. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"... drawing it up, and fastening it to the wild apple-tree, whose stem still bore
the mark which its chain had worn in the chafing of the spring freshets. ..."
5. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1866)
"The ratio for the last decade would have been much lower but for the extraordinary
expenses in 1865 to repair the damages done by the spring freshets. ..."
Other Resources:
