Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To heave, as the waves of the sea; swell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To swell or heave like a wave of the sea.
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- verb intransitive, rare To
heave , as the waves of the sea;swell .
Etymologies
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From em- + billow.
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