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mistfall

noun

Etymology

From mist + fall.

  1. inherited from *fallą✻
  2. inherited from fealle — “trap, snare”
  3. inherited from feall
  4. inherited from fal
  5. inherited from *h₃elh₁-✻ — “to collapse, fall; to destroy”
  6. inherited from *fallaną✻ — “to fall”
  7. inherited from *fallan✻ — “to fall”
  8. inherited from feallan — “to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”
  9. inherited from fallen
  10. compounded as mistfall — “mist + fall”

Definitions

  1. A waterfall that falls in the form of fine mist.

    • The mistfall was heavier as the boat entered the domain of the great falls at Niagara.
    • Water started to come down from here and there on the high bank, streamlets big as a finger, mere dripdrops, mistfalls that evaporated halfway to the surface of the river – these can't be rainfed, not here – […]

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA