What is a river flood; an overflow or inundation. Burns. Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate. Tennyson called?
spate — A river flood; an overflow or inundation. Burns. Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate. Tennyson. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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