1) Aftermath 2) Airstream 3) Exclusively Saxon word 4) Exclusively Anglo word 5) Flow 6) Race 7) Rowing consequence 8) Slipstream 9) The consequences of an event 10) The Wire episode 11) Wash 12) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 13) Word of purely Anglo origin 1) Aftermath 2) Slipstream 3) Wake 
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• (v. i.) To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.
The seaward rush of water down a beach that occurs with a receding wave.
Back'wash` transitive verb To clean the oil from (wool) after combing. Ash. 
The return sheet flow down a beach after a wave is spent.
The return water flow of swash. This sheet of water flows back to ocean because of gravity.
Backwash is the flow of water down a beach under the influence of gravity after the breaking of a wave and its associated swash. As this water returns to the breaker zone it carries beach material with it. Steep waves, which break almost vertically on to a beach, have an extremely powerful backwash and move much material out to sea. Backwash contri...
The return flow of water down a beach after a wave has broken.
The seaward return of the water following the uprush of the waves.
(1) The seaward return of the water following the uprush of the waves. Also called backrush or run down. (2) Water of waves thrown back by an obstruction such as a ship, BREAKWATER, CLIFF, etc. 
The gravity-fed return flow of water after a wave breaks on a beach. An important factor in determining beach gradient.