Such waves or billows collectively; the rising or driving swell of the sea.

A long rolling swell; also, the condition in which two vessels are when thrown aboard one another by such a swell.

The rising or heaving of the sea or other body of water in a succession of long rolling waves, as after a storm; concrete such a wave, or, more…

The flow or course of the tide, the sea, etc.; (also) swell, swelling (of the sea, waves, etc.).

A deep swell or heavy rolling of the sea, the result of a distant storm or seismic disturbance.

The swell of the sea thrown back from contact with a solid body, esp. from the paddles of steamboats; hence, the loss of power occasioned by it in…

a second or subsequent roll of thunder; (also) a roll of the waves following the subsidence of a storm; frequently figurative and in figurative…

The roll or swell of the sea. poetic.