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Definition of Heavy swell
1. Noun. A broad and deep undulation of the ocean.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heavy Swell
Literary usage of Heavy swell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1835)
"Of quite a different nature, but equally dangerous in its effects, is the heavy
swell that may be observed occasionally along the northern coasts of some of ..."
2. A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions by James Clark Ross (1847)
"heavy swell in the Pack The clear Sea in sight. — Gain the open Water. Proceed to
the Southward. — Becalmed. — Large Iceberg seen last Year Severe ..."
3. Camping and Cruising in Florida by James Alexander Henshall (1884)
"Incompatibility of poetry and a heavy swell. —Through tho Florida Strait.—Isolated
light-houses.—The "cocoa- nut boom."—Bahia Honda.-'—A heavy sea—Key West. ..."
4. South America and the Pacific: Comprising a Journey Across the Pampas and by Peter Campbell Scarlett (1838)
"... of a sea-voyage—Sea-sickness and its cure—Gun-room—Moustafa—French vessel in
sight— heavy swell—Porto Santo—Its first discovery—Arrival at Madeira. ..."
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