• IPA: /lʌl/

lull (plural lulls)

1. A period of rest or soothing.
2. A period of reduced activity; a respite
3. (nautical) A period without waves or wind.
   • 1839, The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1839, p. 26 ↗:

     […] during the lull, wind shifted to S. E. […]

   • 1875, W. G. Wilson, Report of the Midnapore and Burdwan Cyclone of the 15th and 16th of October 1874, p. 74 ↗:

     After the lull the wind does not appear to have blown with any great strength […]

   • 2016, David Houghton and Fiona Campbell, Wind Strategy, not paginated ↗

     The air under each cloud has spent time near the surface, has been slowed and backed by friction—it is a lull.

4. (surfing) An extended pause between sets of waves.
   • 1992, John Warlaumont, The Noaa Diving Manual, p. 19-19 ↗

     It is advisable to leave the surf zone during the lull between sets of larger waves, waiting outside the surf zone for a lull.

   • 808surfer.com forum (password needed ↗)

     About 2 hours in, a long lull cleared everyone out, and then it started getting a little more consistent and pushing chest ta neck high.

• French: pause
• Italian: quiete, pausa, calma, intervallo, sosta
• Portuguese: descanso, folga
• Russian: зати́шье

• French: bonace, calme
• German: Windstille
• Italian: calma piatta, stasi, bonaccia, calmeria, calma
• Portuguese: calmaria
• Russian: штиль

• Russian: зати́шье

lull (lulls, present participle lulling; past and past participle lulled)

1. (transitive) To cause#Verb|cause to rest#Verb|rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm#Verb|calm

   Synonyms: soothe, quiet

   • to lull him soft asleep

   • 1634, John Milton, “Arcades”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […] , London: Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moſely,  […], published 1645, OCLC 606951673 ↗, page 54 ↗:

     Such ſweet compulſion doth in muſick ly, / To lull the daughers of Neceſſity,

2. (intransitive) To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate.

   The storm lulled.

• (To cause to rest) appease

• French: apaiser, bercer, calmer
• Italian: fare la ninna nanna, fare addormentare, indurre al sonno
• Portuguese: embalar
• Russian: убаю́кивать
• Spanish: arrullar, adormecer

• Russian: затиха́ть

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