Found 2 items, similar to spate.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: spate spate n 1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; “a batch of letters”; “a deal of trouble”; “a lot of money”; “he made a mint on the stock market”; “it must have cost plenty” [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal , great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, stack, tidy sum , wad, whole lot, whole slew] 2: a sudden forceful flow [syn: rush, surge, upsurge] 3: the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow [syn: freshet]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Spate Spate \Spate\, n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. speid.] A river flood; an overflow or inundation. --Burns. [1913 Webster] Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]