wavetop

English

Etymology

wave + top

Noun

wavetop (plural wavetops)

  1. The top of a wave of liquid.
    • 1861, Richard Watson Dixon, Christ's company: and other poems, page 27:
      At length I could look up, and to a sea / Of fire wavetops; not wavetops of these seas / Ægean, white wavetops or black []
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