awash

• The stubby wings were awash, then gone; the water poured in through the open door, then swallowed the door. —  FSF,January2006
• When running "awash"--that is, with a small part of their upper works above water, they are driven by a gasoline engine at a speed of over 10 miles an hour. —  How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
• When she's nigh her daughter she looks as if she was just about ready to cry--lee scuppers all awash, as my husband used to say when I was in the same condition; which wan't often, for cryin' ain't much in my line. —  Fair Harbor
• At the end of two hours they came upon a square-rigger with her decks just awash, and six men clinging to her rigging.
• The men had by this time brought their bags and chests on deck; and finding that the brig had meanwhile settled so deep in the water that her deck was awash, they lost no time in getting their belongings, as well as a bag or two of bread and a couple of breakers of water, into the boat. —  The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific

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