floodlet

noun

floodlet

noun

Etymology From flood + -let.

1

A small flood.

This flood, or rather floodlet, was a veritable godsend, because it cleaned the river bed of the accumulated dirt of months and washed away great quantities of insect life which make the trout decline the angler's lure.1937, Alexander Wanless, Rods on Fast Rivers: An Angling Survey, page 83:

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