Whitecaps

Word WHITECAPS
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Definitions and meanings of "Whitecaps"

What do we mean by whitecaps?

Any of several birds having a white patch on the head.

A wave having a white crest; a breaker.

A member of a self-appointed vigilante committee that carried out lynchings. Some early ones wore white hoods or masks.

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The word "whitecaps" in example sentences

On the black water, the snowy bow wake of the Farley and the ripped combers of the whitecaps were a relief to the eye. ❋ Peter Heller (2007)

Away ', and how the lovely ladies -- you remember how we used to call the whitecaps lovely ladies -- fondled him out to sea and on to heaven. " ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

And I told 'em how he went down in the 'Fly Away', and how the lovely ladies -- you remember how we used to call the whitecaps lovely ladies -- fondled him out to sea and on to heaven. " ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

I could see the stiff whitecaps, and the suck and run of the current was plainly visible in the face and trough of each one. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was beaten and buffeted, smashed under by the great San Pablo whitecaps, and strangled by the hollow tide-rip waves which flung themselves into my eyes, nose, and mouth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The whitecaps glistened in the afternoon sunshine. ❋ V.C.Andrews (2011)

There was a dark figure standing at the prow, hands extended in heartsick longing toward the crashing whitecaps. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

This descending motif, like a windswept downpour, is answered by an equally powerful rising motif in the double basses, bassoons and trombones, suggesting wind-lashed whitecaps on Lake Lucerne, where the opera takes place. ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2011)

But during real missions, one had to use other clues (e.g., whitecaps on waves, swaying branches of trees, etc.). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Arriving on the island, Andy leads us up to a vantage point where we are greeted by cracking views from the cliffs – out over a deep blue sea, where whitecaps flash like smiles in the distance. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Olive Kitteridge is a collection of 13 linked short stories about a retired junior-high math teacher and other residents of the fictional Crosby, Maine, where whitecaps dot the bay and a dirt road winds down to the water. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Anyplace but here, this fragile little tube, reaching and screaming over the whitecaps like a proud, dying thing, trying to leap over one last wave and reach land, any land. ❋ Brett Rosenblatt (2011)

She saw whitecaps on the horizon and thought about the shipwreck that had tossed so many people into the sea, some of whom had made it to the bay and found a new start in a new place. ❋ Barbara Freethy (2011)

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