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cross sea
noun
, Oceanography, Nautical.
- a sea with a choppy surface produced by the intersection of waves from different storms.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cross sea1
First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences
Still, they have a heavy swell to contend with, and an ugly cross sea.
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Cross sea: A sea or swell caused by a wind different from that blowing at the time the cross sea is running.
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By noon, however, the heavy cross-sea had abated, and the Excelsior bore west.
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We drifted in upon the land in the chill light of a stormy dawn across a heartless cross-sea mountain high.
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We run into a cross-sea or a swell, or something, and they disappear again, and their places at the table remain vacant.
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