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noun

Surge n.

A spring; a fountain. (Obs.) "Divers surges and springs of water."

A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind. "He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed." "He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar, Pursues the foaming surges to the shore."

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

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

verb

Surge v. t. (past & past part. surged; pres. part. surging) (Naut.) To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).

Surge v. i.

To swell; to rise hifg and roll. "The surging waters like a mountain rise."

(Naut.) To slip along a windlass.

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Etymology of 'Surge'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Surge" Quotes from Famous Books

... the foul. In the protracted duel between the offending Manchester forward and the great, honest Jos Myatt he had given another point to the enemy. As soon as the host realized the infamy it yelled once more in heightened fury. It seemed to surge in masses against the thick iron railings that alone stood between the referee and death. The discreet referee was approaching the grand stand as the least unsafe place. In a second a handful of executioners had somehow got on to the grass. And in the next ...

— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett

... surge we glide With bosoms true and brave, It is our home—our throne of pride— It soon may be our grave; Yet fearlessly we rush to meet The foe that comes before us; The fight begun, we man the gun, ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... able to attract foreign business and investment, especially in its offshore banking and tourism industries, with a surge in foreign direct investment in 2006, attributed to the construction of several tourism projects. Tourism is the main source of foreign exchange, with almost 900,000 arrivals in 2007. The manufacturing sector is the ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... go down, and the ladies go down every day, taking their novels or their needle-work with them. They have various notions of a bath: some conceive that it is bathing to sit in the edge of the water, and emit shrieks as the surge sweeps against them; others run boldly in, and after a moment of poignant hesitation jump up and down half-a-dozen times, and run out; yet others imagine it better to remain immersed to the chin for a given space, looking toward the shore with lips tightly shut and the breath held. But after ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... though she'd been playfully pinched. "Sir Gay? You mean Serge Paulvitch, the Fiend of Florence?" She pronounced the name properly: "Sair-gay," instead of "surge," as too many ...

— Unwise Child • Gordon Randall Garrett

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