HEAD SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does head sea mean? 

• HEAD SEA (noun)
  The noun HEAD SEA has 1 sense:

1. a sea in which the waves are running directly against the course of the ship

  Familiarity information: HEAD SEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEAD SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sea in which the waves are running directly against the course of the ship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("head sea" is a kind of...):

sea (turbulent water with swells of considerable size)

 Context examples 

He was not only useless as an officer and a bad influence amongst the men, but it was plain that at this rate he must soon kill himself outright, so nobody was much surprised, nor very sorry, when one dark night, with a head sea, he disappeared entirely and was seen no more.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)