The reflection of moonlight on a body of water.I was long puzzled to know why this moonwake always followed as I walked ... — Daniel A. Goodsell, Nature and Character at Granite Bay, 1901And they grew and brightened and gathered; and whiles together they ran. Like the moonwake over the waters; and whiles they were scant and wan, ... — William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung, 1922Mariners sometimes call the moving path of light leading to the moon the moonwake, because it looks like the white wash of a ship's wake. — The Atlantic, Word Fugitives, March, 2006
