mountain waven.
/ˈmaʊntᵻn ˌweɪv/, U.S. /ˌmaʊnt(ə)n ˈweɪv/ 1. poetic. A mountainous wave at sea.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > unusually large
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1696 N. Tate & N. Brady New Version Psalms of David lxxxviii. 7 Me all thy Mountain Waves have press'd.
1801 T. Campbell Ye Mariners of Eng. iv Britannia needs no bulwark..; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep.
1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables ix. 154 This poor, forlorn voyager..had been flung, by the last mountain-wave of his shipwreck, into a quiet harbor.
1988 E. J. Scovell Coll. Poems 201 And are they clouds or can they be, Those deepest down, foam flecks or mountain waves of sea?
2. Meteorology. A body of turbulent air created on the lee side of a mountain when a strong wind meets it head on and is forced to rise over it.
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1959 R. E. Huschke Gloss. Meteorol. 337 Most research has been devoted to the gravity lee wave (mountain wave).
1979 G. Liddy Out of Control xviii. 248 The wind was reported to be from the west, but a shift to either north or south could cause him to fly right into a deadly ‘mountain wave’.
2000 Weatherwise 1 July 20 (caption) Mountain wave clouds with long cirrus tails float over the front range of the Rocky Mountains near Littleton, Colorado.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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