Noun
The reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
Usage- no-plural
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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 […]
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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.