All 5 Uses
whitecaps
in
Sea Wolf
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- The sea had turned a dull leaden grey and grown rougher, and was now tossing foaming whitecaps to the sky.†
Chpt 3 *whitecaps = wind-blown waves with white foam at their crest
- A whitecap foamed above it and broke across in a snow-white smother.†
Chpt 19whitecap = a wind-blown wave with white foam at its crest
- Time and again and countless times we watched the boat luff into the big whitecaps, lose headway, and be flung back like a cork.†
Chpt 19whitecaps = wind-blown waves with white foam at their crest
- In consequence it held the boat bow on to the sea and wind—the safest position in which to escape being swamped when the sea is breaking into whitecaps.†
Chpt 27
- We were in imminent danger of being swamped by the whitecaps.†
Chpt 28
Definitions:
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(1)
(whitecaps) wind-blown waves with white foam at their crest
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)