Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being becalmed.
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Examples
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(With the exception of a larger boat and better accommodations, it amounts to about the same thing as a becalmment I underwent on the Montauk voyage, East Long Island, last summer.)
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(With the exception of a larger boat and better accommodations, it amounts to about the same thing as a becalmment I underwent on the Montauk voyage,
November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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(With the exception of a larger boat and better accommodations, it amounts to about the same thing as a becalmment I underwent on the
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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