catarac

Updated: July 29, 2025

The uproar of the Falls was very confusing, and it mixed in all sorts of sounds, like feet walking, like voices talking, like shouts and cries. "Silly great catarac'," said Bert. "There ain't no sense in it, fallin' and fallin'." Never mind that, now! What were the Germans doing? Would they go back to the flying-machine?

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The War in the Air