Crossword clues for whitecap
whitecap
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whitethroat \White"throat`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species ( Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler ( Sylvia hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat ( Sylvia curruca).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
WordNet
n. a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white [syn: white horse]
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.