drencher

Example Sentences

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For example, Cassidy has discovered that in various parts of the U.S. a heavy rain is called a duck drencher, a chunk floater, a clod roller, a toad strangler and a goose drownder.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is going to be a drencher, and it is of no use our getting wet through to begin with.

From Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia by Paget, Walter

Well, the race was run that year in a thunderstorm—a drencher; and if Foe was right, I guess that finished Gouvernant, who never looked like a winner.

From Foe-Farrell by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

He said that about five years ago there had been a light shower, and during one of the Ptolemy administrations there had been a regular old drencher.

From In Pastures New by Ade, George

Certain things were clear to her now; the unknown drencher of beds, the stranger who had appeared from nowhere and had left her father senseless, were no longer mysteries.

From The Angel of Terror by Wallace, Edgar