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Heavy swell   /hˈɛvi swɛl/   Listen
Heavy swell

noun
1.
A broad and deep undulation of the ocean.  Synonym: ground swell.






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"Heavy swell" Quotes from Famous Books



... the hospital people came to see what was the matter. The doctor was a heavy swell, with a big cigar, held up in front of him between two fat, soft, yellow-white fingers, and a dandy little pair of gold-rimmed eye-glasses nipped onto his nose ...
— Joe Wilson and His Mates • Henry Lawson

... and uncertain like the soul of man. Sometimes it is grey like the English Channel off Beachy Head, with a heavy swell, and sometimes it is rough, capped with white crests, and boisterous. It is not so often that it is calm and blue. Then, indeed, the blue is arrogant. The sun shines fiercely from an unclouded sky. The trade wind gets into your blood and you are ...
— The Trembling of a Leaf - Little Stories of the South Sea Islands • William Somerset Maugham

... the mariner as possible. In the course of nine years no fewer than sixteen vessels had been either lost or stranded on the Carr Rocks. Therefore, in 1809, moorings were laid down for a floating buoy, 'but owing to the heavy swell of sea and the rocky sand-stone bottom on this part of the coast, it was found hardly possible to prevent the buoy from occasionally drifting, even although it had been attached to part of the great chain made from bar-iron an inch and a half ...
— Smeaton and Lighthouses - A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel • John Smeaton



Words linked to "Heavy swell" :   crestless wave, ground swell, swell



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