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Rolling wave   /rˈoʊlɪŋ weɪv/   Listen
Rolling wave

noun
1.
A long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore.  Synonyms: roll, roller.






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"Rolling wave" Quotes from Famous Books



... the stamping of our feet flowed back again from the recesses of the land. The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like a rioting invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants, piled up, crested, ready to topple over the creek, to sweep every little man of us out of his little existence. And it moved not. A deadened burst of mighty splashes and snorts reached us from afar, as though an ichthyosaurus ...
— Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad



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