HEAVY SWELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heavy swell mean? 

• HEAVY SWELL (noun)
  The noun HEAVY SWELL has 1 sense:

1. a broad and deep undulation of the ocean

  Familiarity information: HEAVY SWELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEAVY SWELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A broad and deep undulation of the ocean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

ground swell; heavy swell

Hypernyms ("heavy swell" is a kind of...):

crestless wave; swell (the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea)

 Context examples 

But these gave place to a heavy swell; I felt sick and hardly able to hold the rudder, when suddenly I saw a line of high land towards the south.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)