scend

American  

[send] / sɛnd /

Or send

verb (used without object)

1. to heave in a swell.

2. to lurch forward from the motion of a heavy sea.

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noun

1. the heaving motion of a vessel.

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

scend British  

/ sɛnd /

verb

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

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noun

1. the upward heaving of a vessel pitching

2. the forward lift given a vessel by the sea

Etymology

Origin of scend

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

Example Sentences

The Western world clings fondly, and fairly successfully, to the ideal that athletic rivalry between nations should tran scend political differences.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.