Crossword-Solution: BURSTER 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

When I reached this house, I was glad to learn that the river was not likely to remain high for more than a day or two, and that if what was called a Southerly Burster came up, as it might be expected to do at any moment, it would be quite low again before three days were over.

The southerly "burster," as it is called, gradually creeps up, and at last drives the other off the field.

The Pretty Mary--as ugly and evil-smelling a tub as ever pitched under a southerly burster--had been lying on and off Cape Surville for nearly three weeks.

The approach of the true burster is indicated by a peculiar roll of clouds, which, when once seen, cannot be mistaken.

And the cobbler he tuckt up his apron and spit In his hands for a burster--but devil a bit Would he move--so as yet they made nothing of land; For there lay the knight like a whale in the sand.