scend

scend
Synonyms and related words:
be poised, billow, bore, break, breakers, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, comb, comber, crash, dash, dirty water, eagre, ebb and flow, flounder, gravity wave, ground swell, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, hobbyhorse, lift, lop, lurch, make heavy weather, peak, pitch, pitch and toss, plunge, popple, pound, rear, reel, riffle, ripple, rise, rise and fall, rock, roll, roller, rough water, sea, send, smash, surf, surge, sway, swell, swing, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, toss, toss and tumble, trough, tsunami, tumble, undulate, undulation, wallow, water wave, wave, wavelet, welter, white horses, whitecaps, yaw

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  • 'scend — scend, scend var. ff. send n.2 and v.2 (Naut.) …   Useful english dictionary

  • scend — [send] n. [< SEND2, assumed to be aphetic for ASCEND] the upward heaving of a ship vi. to be heaved upward, as by a wave: said of a ship …   English World dictionary

  • scend — con·de·scend; con·de·scend·ence; con·de·scend·ent; con·de·scend·ing·ness; de·scend; de·scend·ance; de·scend·an·cy; de·scend·ibil·i·ty; de·scend·ible; de·scend·ing; de·scend·ing·ly; tran·scend; tran·scend·ing·ly; de·scend·ant; scend;… …   English syllables

  • scend — n. & v. Naut. n. 1 the impulse given by a wave or waves (scend of the sea). 2 a plunge of a vessel. v.intr. (of a vessel) plunge or pitch owing to the impulse of a wave. Etymology: alt. f. SEND or DESCEND * * * verb rise or heave upward under the …   Useful english dictionary

  • scend — Send Send, n. (Naut.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. [Written also {scend}.] W. C. Russell. The send of the sea . Longfellow. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • scend — noun Etymology: perhaps short for ascend Date: 1726 1. the lift of a wave ; send 2. the upward movement of a pitching ship …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • scend — /send/, Naut. v.i. (of a vessel) 1. to heave in a swell. 2. to lurch forward from the motion of a heavy sea. n. 3. the heaving motion of a vessel. 4. the forward impulse imparted by the motion of a sea against a vessel. Also, send. [1615 25; cf.… …   Universalium

  • scend — noun The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge …   Wiktionary

  • scend — condescend descend redescend …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • scend — v. surge, swell, heave, rise; move unsteadily from the motion of heavy sea n. upward movement of a ship moving up and down in difficult seas …   English contemporary dictionary

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