DCHP-3

chaudière

[< Cdn F]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

the churning, seething mass of white water at the foot of a cataract.

Quotations

1632
[Sault de la Chaudière [is] on the river of the Algonquins, some eighteen feet high and descending among rocks with a great roar.]
1826
. . . a cow one morning tumbled into the little kettle, or Chaudiere, and came up again at Gox Point, ten miles down the river.
1927
. . . two fast riffles sprang out, one from each side of the canyon, and met in a boiling chaudière of wild white water.
1965
. . . the water had hollowed out a deep basin . . . which the Indians called Asticou (the boiler) and so it became known by the French translation, Chaudière.