Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The highest part of a wave or the line along the top of a wave.
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Examples
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An unusually large breaker for so mild a surf curled overhead, and he climbed out on her again, sinking both of them under as the wave-crest over-fell and smashed down.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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They cut away, and the Rose, released from the strain, shook her feathers on the wave-crest like a freed sea-gull, while all men held their breaths.
Westward Ho! 2007
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Now and then a curling wave-crest hid even her topmasts.
Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper
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An occasional wave-crest buried the boys to the waist.
Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman
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Oh! no, no! Then he saw, out in the gloom and mistiness, the white gleaming of a wave-crest, rising and sinking, but sweeping steadily toward him, and knew that it would dash upon his narrow foothold.
Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord
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Gulf of Georgia into petty convulsions, lay where he had fallen, his head rolling as his vessel rolled, heedless when she rose and raced on a wave-crest or fell laboring in the trough when a wave slid out from under her.
Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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An unusually large breaker for so mild a surf curled overhead, and he climbed out on her again, sinking both of them under as the wave-crest over-fell and smashed down.
The Kanaka Surf 1919
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Upon her vitality at the time, and the general health of the woman, the length of each desire-period, or, as we might say, the size and complexity of each wave-crest, depends.
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The increased vitality is shown by the height and number of the apices of this wave-crest.
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The one comes on the two or three days just before menstruation: the other after; but after menstruation has ceased there is a nearly level interval, bringing the next wave-crest to the two or three days which come about eight or nine days after the close of menstruation, that is, just round the fourteen days, or half the moon month, since the last wave-crest.
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