waterburn noun2 •(old-fashioned) Irritation of the skin caused by exposure to the sun's rays reflecting off of water (as well as reaching the skin directly from the sun).Snowburn, especially in the mountains and on glaciers, is much more severe than waterburn as from lakes, and waterburn, again, is severer than ordinary sunburn. […] — 1913 •(rare) Seafire, mareel.trawl vessels […] plough the ground up, and do not leave anything living […] and the waterburn (phosphorescent life) lighted up by the trawler scares the fish. — 1878
