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quickwater † 
n. a stretch of a stream that has sufficient fall to create a marked current but where there are no rapids.
See also: dead water(s)
- 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.
- 1905 Nearer and nearer sounded the quick water of the thoroughfare between Lac des Rochers and the dead-water of Rivière du Renard.