Torrent

1. n. Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
2. n. A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
3. n. Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.