sun drawing water

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sun drawing water [′sən ′drȯ·iŋ ′wȯd·ər]

(meteorology)

Popular designation for a phenomenon of the sun showing through scattered openings in a layer of clouds into a layer of turbid air that is hazy or dusty; bright bands are seen where the several beams of sunlight pass down through the subcloud layer; sailors called the phenomenon the backstays of the sun.

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