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A wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white
Answer for the clue "A wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white ", 8 letters:
whitecap
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several birds having a white patch on the head. 2 A wave having a white crest; a breaker. 3 (cx US historical English) A member of a self-appointed vigilante committee that carried out lynchings. Some early ones wore white hoods or masks.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, of birds, from white (adj.) + cap (n.). Attested from 1773 in reference to breaking waves, from 1818 of mushrooms, and from 1891 in reference to "one of a self-constituted band in U.S. who committed outrages under pretense of regulating public morals" ...
Usage examples of whitecap.
Spike departed to meet Abu for tennis, whistling like a parakeet in a marijuana field, and she fell back asleep to dream of whitecapped waves.
I could not believe that Whitecap was either the chief distributer or the financial head of the illegal traffic.
Every wave was whitecapped, and the great hills of the ground swells were obscured by foam flying off the crests and rolling in the troughs.
The countertops were lined with cups and glasses and plates and cereal boxes, and a giant jar of Metamucil with prescription bottles clustered around it like whitecapped toadstools.
The rapid current frothed and boiled over underwater rocks, whitecapping the surface and occasionally sending up a spray of diamond drops.
Winds drove squawls across the vast silver belly of Wat-tala Bay, whitecapping the water, sending storm chop to tear at the beach.
Not so far above him, Elbryan could see the snow on this mountain and on all the others, a whitecapping that the young man suspected might be perpetual.