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ground-sea
A heavy sea in which large waves rise and dash upon the coast without apparent cause.
a1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts ii. (1704) 247/2 He met with so great a Storm and Ground Seas. 1756Prince in Phil. Trans. XLIX. 642 A rumbling noise was heard, like that which usually precedes what the sailors call a ground-sea. 1835R. S. Hawker Prose Wks. (1893) 28 On, through the ground-sea, shove! 1865Englishm. Mag. Oct. 296 A heavy ground-sea. |