Meaning of moonwake | Babel Free

Definitions

The reflection of moonlight on a body of water.

no-plural

Examples

“I was long puzzled to know why this moonwake always followed as I walked […]”

“And they grew and brightened and gathered; and whiles together they ran. Like the moonwake over the waters […]”

“Mariners sometimes call the moving path of light leading to the moon the moonwake, because it looks like the white wash of a ship's wake.”

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