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quickwater†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a stretch of a stream that has sufficient fall to create a marked current but where there are no rapids.
See: dead water(s)
Quotations
1905
Nearer and nearer sounded the quick water of the thoroughfare between Lac des Rochers and the dead-water of Rivière du Renard.
1958
On the subject of water also there is the definition of quickwater (it isn't in the dictionary). It used to be used in the Maritimes, a term designating water running rapidly but not broken by rapids.