water-splash

plural water-splashes

1. A ford, a place where a river or stream is shallow enough to be crossed without the provision of a bridge.

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   The village itself, however, is invisible until you come to a corner with an archaic wooden pump high on the right bank, turn, and then suddenly, there it is - all of Kersey, running steeply down The Street to a water-splash through a tributary of the Brett, and up again, just as steeply, to the summit of Church Hill.

   1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, pages 237, 240, about Kersey, Suffolk