rapid

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This rapid is a sort of shelving cascade, about three hundred yards in length, having a descent of from ten to fifteen feet.

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  1. adjective Moving, acting, or occurring with great speed. See Synonyms at fast1.
  2. noun An extremely fast-moving part of a river, caused by a steep descent in the riverbed. Often used in the plural.

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  1. Latin rapidus, from rapere, to seize; see rep- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. I. a. F. rapide (Old French vernacularly rade, ra) = Spanish rápido = Portuguese Italian rapido, swift, from Latin rapidus, snatching, tearing, usually hasty, swift, literally ‘quick,’ from rapere, snatch, akin to Greek ἁρπάζειν, seize (see harpy): see rap, rape. II. n. F. rapide, a swift current in a stream, plural rapides, rapids; from the adjective
 

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