scend

or send

[ send ]

verb (used without object)

1. to heave in a swell.
2. to lurch forward from the motion of a heavy sea.

noun

1. the heaving motion of a vessel.
2. the forward impulse imparted by the motion of a sea against a vessel.

scend

/ sɛnd /

verb

1. (of a vessel) to surge upwards in a heavy sea

noun

1. the upward heaving of a vessel pitching
2. the forward lift given a vessel by the sea

Word History and Origins

Origin of scend¹

1615–25; send ²; perhaps aphetic variant of ascend, descend

Word History and Origins

Origin of scend¹

C17: perhaps from descend or ascend

Example Sentences

Now, the greatest danger was the leads, those black stretches of open water and paper-thin ice; every time they encountered one, panic de­scended.

From New York Times

Blackhawks de­scended from the dark heavens to airlift the most seriously wounded.

From Time

I de­scended to a level of savagery I never imagined possible.

From Literature

So close were we, that had the stranger been pitching instead of ’scending at the moment, her jibboom-end must have passed through the peak of our trysail.

From Project Gutenberg

She was swinging slowly against the scend of the running swell—laying up to the wind.

From Project Gutenberg