(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:18:06

Spate (?), n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. speid.]

A river flood; an overflow or inundation.

Burns.

Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate. Tennyson.

 

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