scend

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

scend, n. & v. Naut.
--n.
1 the impulse given by a wave or waves (scend of the sea).
2 a plunge of a vessel.
--v.intr. (of a vessel) plunge or pitch owing to the impulse of a wave.

Etymology

alt. f. SEND or DESCEND

THESAURUS

scend

be poised, billow, bore, break, breakers, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, comb, comber, crash, dash, dirty water, eagre, ebb and flow, flounder, gravity wave, ground swell, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, hobbyhorse, lift, lop, lurch, make heavy weather, peak, pitch, pitch and toss, plunge, popple, pound, rear, reel, riffle, ripple, rise, rise and fall, rock, roll, roller, rough water, sea, send, smash, surf, surge, sway, swell, swing, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, toss, toss and tumble, trough, tsunami, tumble, undulate, undulation, wallow, water wave, wave, wavelet, welter, white horses, whitecaps, yaw