whitecap

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Then under the whitecap is a gleam of silver again.

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  1. noun A wave with a crest of foam.

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  • Colourful colonies of whitecap limpets, red turban snails, blue topsnails, and giant plumose anemones spread below the surface and climb the sides of the winding, shallow, kilometre-long channel that separates Moresby and Burnaby islands. —  The Georgia Straight - News And Views
  • Then under the whitecap is a gleam of silver again. —  Wood Folk at School
  • But somehow in soft Posilippo the wind is tempered and the rain seems but a shower, and spring and summer, summer and spring, ever join hands amongst the ilexes and the laurels and the orange trees On this day it was all summer, for there was not a cloud in the air nor a whitecap on the sea as the water gently lapped against the steps at the foot of Bianca Corleone's garden. —  Taquisara
  • The glimpse of the bay that had not yet been lost between the walls of fast-encroaching new buildings, was no longer dull, and beaten level by the rain, but showed cold, and ruffled, and steely-blue; there was even a whitecap or two dancing on the crests out toward Alcatraz. —  Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby
  • Not a whitecap was in sight Did you hear what that man on the dock said when we passed?" —  Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat
 

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/ˈhwaɪtkæp/
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