billow
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
billow (plural billows)
- A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
- 1782, William Cowper, "Expostulation", in Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq..
- […] Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll, / From the world's girdle to the frozen pole;
- 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus", in Ballads and Other Poems.
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- 1873, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Brook and the Wave" in Birds of Passage:
- And the brooklet has found the billow / Though they flowed so far apart.
- 1893 August, Rudyard Kipling, "Seal Lullaby", in "The White Seal", National Review (London).
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- 1782, William Cowper, "Expostulation", in Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq..
billow (billows, present participle billowing; past and past participle billowed)
- To surge or roll in billows.
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Chain Gang,”
- The nuns' veils billowed and flapped behind the snaky line of girls as if the sisters were shooing the serpent from the Garden of Eden.
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Chain Gang,”
- To swell out or bulge.
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