intransitive verb. To rise and move in a billowing or swelling manner.

intransitive verb. To roll or be tossed about on waves, as a boat.

intransitive verb. To move like advancing waves.

intransitive verb. To increase suddenly.

intransitive verb. To improve one's performance suddenly, especially in bettering one's standing in a competition.

intransitive verb. To slip around a windlass. Used of a rope.

intransitive verb. To loosen or slacken (a cable) gradually.

noun. A powerful wave or swell of water.

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noun. A sudden rushing motion like that of a great wave.

noun. The forward and backward motion of a ship subjected to wave action.

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noun. A sudden onrush or increase.

noun. A period of intense effort that improves a competitor's standing, as in a race.

noun. A sudden, transient increase or oscillation in electric current or voltage.

noun. A brief increase in the intensity of solar activity such as X-ray emission, solar wind, solar flares, and prominences.

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noun. The part of a windlass into which the cable surges.

noun. A temporary release or slackening of a cable.

To rise and fall, as a ship on the waves; especially, to ride near the shore; ride at anchor.

To rise high and roll, as waves: literally or figuratively.

Nautical: To slip back: as, the cable surges.

To let go a piece of rope suddenly; slack a rope up suddenly when it renders round a pin, a winch, windlass, or capstan.

In electricity, to oscillate violently: said of oscillatory rushes of current.

To cause to rise and swell forth with a billowy motion.

noun. A spring; a fountain; a source of water.

noun. A large wave or billow; a great rolling swell of water; also, such waves or swells collectively: literally or figuratively.

noun. The act of surging, or of heaving in an undulatory manner.

noun. In ship-building, the tapered part in front of the whelps, between the chocks of a capstan, on which a rope may surge.

noun. Any change of barometric level which is not due to the passage of an area of low pressure or to diurnal variation.

noun. In electricity, a sudden rush of current; specifically, the violent oscillations which may occur in alternating-current circuits when the conditions for resonance are fulfilled, or which may be set up in conductors by the inductive action of lightning.

noun. A spring; a fountain.

noun. A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind.

noun. The motion of, or produced by, a great wave.

noun. The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.

intransitive verb. To swell; to rise hifg and roll.

intransitive verb. To slip along a windlass.

transitive verb. To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; ; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).

noun. A sudden rush, flood or increase which is transient.

noun. The maximum amplitude of a vehicles' forward/backward oscillation

noun. A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.

noun. The swell or heave of the sea. (FM 55-501).

verb. To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.

verb. To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.

verb. To slack off a line.

noun. a sudden forceful flow

noun. a sudden or abrupt strong increase

noun. a large sea wave

verb. rise rapidly

verb. rise and move, as in waves or billows

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