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Ship's rise
Answer for the clue "Ship's rise ", 5 letters:
scend
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Send \Send\, n. (Naut.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. [Written also scend .] --W. C. Russell. ``The send of the sea''. --Longfellow.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave; "the boats surged" [syn: surge ]
Usage examples of scend.
They had de scended into Asu'a—in a way, they had circled back into the past.
He glanced down at the heaving boat, the bowman poised with his hook, Bonden at the tiller gauging the scend of the sea, alternately filling a trifle and then luffing up, and at Stephen, looking meek in the stern-sheets, nursing his box: he sniffed, and went below without a word.