overrakev.
/ˌəʊvəˈreɪk/, U.S. /ˌoʊvə(r)ˈreɪk/ Nautical.
transitive. Of waves breaking over a ship: to sweep over from end to end.In quot. 1624 (of shot or other ordnance): to rake (a ship) thoroughly, or from end to end.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [verb (transitive)] > beat upon or dash over (a ship)
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > assail with gunfire > rake
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1599 E. Wright Voy. Earle of Cumberl. 23 in Certaine Errors Navigation The raging waues..ouerraked the waist of the shippe.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia 128 [The Spaniards] followed with their great Ordnance, that many times ouerracked our ship.
1642 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1826) (modernized text) II. 75 So low as the water stood upon her deck, and the sea over-raking her continually.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) The Waves are said to over-rake a Ship, when they break in and wash her from Stem to Stern, or from one end to the other.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 512 Over-rake, when a ship rides at anchor in a head-sea, the waves of which frequently break in upon her, they are said to over-rake her.
1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor ii. xxv. 389 Such mightie waves overrack'd us in that smalle barge, that with great persuasions I induc'd our Gentlemen to occupie them selves with freeing out the water.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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