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Head sea   /hɛd si/   Listen
Head sea

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





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"Head sea" Quotes from Famous Books



... would then have beat us; but he had taken along a tongue of land which ran into the sea, so that, on being pressed, he was forced to try to swim across the arm of the sea, which, at the place where he took the water, cannot have been less than two miles broad; in spite of a fresh breeze and a head sea against him, he got fully half-way over, but he could not make head against the waves any further, and was obliged to turn back, when, being quite exhausted, he was ...
— The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2) • John West
... through the Solomons," he had said one dark night to Barry as the Mahina was tearing through the water under the hum of a heavy squall, quivering in every timber, and deluging her decks with clouds of spray which, from there being a head sea, leapt up from her weather bow as high as the foretopsail. "I want to get into Arrecifos Lagoon as quickly as I can, even if we do lose a light spar or two. I'm no navigator, as you know, but I know the Solomons as well as any man, for I've been ...
— Edward Barry - South Sea Pearler • Louis Becke
... perfectly elastic fluid," roars George above the tumult. "About as elastic as a head sea off the Fastnet, ...
— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling


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