[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

spate \spate\, n. of celtic origin; cf. ir. speid.
   a river flood; an overflow or inundation. --burns.
   1913 webster

         gareth in a showerful spring
         stared at the spate.                     --tennyson.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

spate
     n 1: often followed by `of' a large number or amount or extent;
          "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
          money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
          have cost plenty" syn: batch, deal, flock, good
          deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess,
           mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot,
           quite a little, raft, sight, slew, stack, tidy
          sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
     2: a sudden forceful flow syn: rush, surge, upsurge
     3: the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or
        melting snow syn: freshet
see also:
batch deal flock good deal great deal hatful 
heap lot mass mess mickle 
mint muckle peck pile plenty 
pot quite a little raft sight slew 
stack tidy sum wad whole lot whole slew 
rush surge upsurge freshet 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

258 moby thesaurus words for "spate":
   niagara, abundance, acres, affluence, afflux, affluxion,
   ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, army, asperse, avalanche,
   bags, barrels, batch, befoul, belch, bespatter, bespot, blacken,
   bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, brash, bumper crop, burst,
   burst of rain, bushel, cascade, cataclysm, cataract, cloudburst,
   cluster, cohue, concourse, confluence, conflux, considerable,
   copiousness, countlessness, course, crosscurrent, crowd, crush,
   current, deal, debouchment, defame, defluxion, deluge, denigrate,
   dissiliency, douse, downfall, downflow, downpour, drencher, drift,
   driftage, embarras de richesses, enough, eructation, eruption,
   extravagance, extravagancy, exuberance, fertility, flare-up, flock,
   flood, flooding, flow, flowing, fluency, flux, foison, fresh,
   freshet, full measure, fullness, galaxy, generosity, generousness,
   gobs, good deal, great abundance, great deal, great plenty, gush,
   gushing rain, heap, heaps, heavy rain, horde, host, inflow,
   inundation, jam, jet, landslide, lashings, lavishness, legion,
   liberality, liberalness, load, loads, lot, lots, luxuriance, mass,
   maximum, mess, mill run, millrace, mint, mob, money to burn,
   more than enough, mountain, much, multitude, myriad, myriads,
   numerousness, ocean, oceans, onrush, onset, onward course, oodles,
   opulence, opulency, outbreak, outburst, outflow, outflowing,
   outpouring, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness,
   overcopiousness, overdose, overflow, overlavishness,
   overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness,
   overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion,
   oversufficiency, oversupply, pack, panoply, peck, pile, piles,
   plash, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora,
   pot, pour, press, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness,
   profuseness, profusion, progression, quantities, quantity,
   quite a little, rabble, race, raft, rafts, rain, rainburst,
   rainspout, rainstorm, rapids, redundancy, repleteness, repletion,
   rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, river, rout,
   ruck, run, rush, scads, scud, sea, series, set, shower, sight,
   slew, slews, slop, slosh, slur, smear, soaker, soaking rain,
   sparge, spew, spit, splatter, splosh, splurge, splutter, spout,
   spurt, spurtle, stack, stacks, stream, substantiality,
   substantialness, succession, superabundance, superfluity,
   superflux, surge, swash, teemingness, throng, tide, tidy sum, tons,
   torrent, torrent of rain, traduce, trend, undercurrent, undertow,
   volcan, volume, wad, wads, water flow, waterflood, waterspout,
   wealth, whole slew, world, worlds

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