resaca

Etymology

From Spanish resaca, probably from resacar (“retake”), though possibly from rio seco (“dry river”) instead.

Noun

resaca (plural resacas)

1. A dry river bed, a former channel of the Rio Grande, found in the southern half of Cameron County, Texas.
   • 1911 July, D. W. Stookey, Land Drainage, in The Clay-worker:

     The drainage of the bottoms south of the Arroyo Colorado is inadequately provided for by broad, shallow depressions between the resacas.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 264:

     Even the springs at Carrizo are barely flowing; it is said this is a result of the irrigation. The resacas have all gone dry.

Anagrams

• Caesar, Ceasar, Cæsar, acrase, araces, arecas, caesar

Etymology

Back-formation from resacar (“to distil”). Thence from sacar (“to extract”).

Noun

resaca f (plural resacas)

1. undertow, surf, backwash (outgoing wave)
2. (commerce) redraft, redrawing
3. hangover (illness caused by a previous bout of heavy drinking)
4. silt deposit
5. (Mexico, US) dry stream bed; resaca