Sentence:  The place was a little below Gravesend, quite out of the <WSD>fret</WSD> and bustle of the narrower river, and there was not even a steamboat pier to disturb the quiet of this cluster of harmless houses, though they watched upon their beach the passage of great navies down the greatest thoroughfare of England. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.