moonwake en · NOUN
Etymology
From moon + wake.
Meanings
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(no-plural) The reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
And they grew and brightened and gathered; and whiles together they ran. Like the moonwake over the waters […]
1922, William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung: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.
2006, The Atlantic: Word Fugitives:I was long puzzled to know why this moonwake always followed as I walked […]
1901, Daniel A. Goodsell, Nature and Character at Granite Bay: