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Ground swell   /graʊnd swɛl/   Listen
Ground swell

noun
1.
An obvious change of public opinion or political sentiment that occurs without leadership or overt expression.
2.
A broad and deep undulation of the ocean.  Synonym: heavy swell.






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"Ground swell" Quotes from Famous Books



... line of his course. It may be well to explain to some of our readers, that, though the surface of the ocean may be like glass, as sometimes really happens, it is never absolutely free from the long, undulating motion that is known by the name of a "ground swell." This swell, on the present occasion, was not very heavy, but it was sufficient to place our young mate, at moments, between two dark mounds of water, that limited his view in either direction to some eighty or a hundred yards; then it raised him on the summit ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper

... the sea cocks in the ballast tanks and soon the Porpoise sunk about two hundred feet beneath the waves. The craft, which had been pitching and tossing under the influence of a ground swell, became more steady and quiet ...
— Under the Ocean to the South Pole - The Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder • Roy Rockwood



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