SCEND Definition & Meaning

scend

or send

[ send ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used without object)

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

noun

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

scend

/ ��ɛ�Ի� /

verb

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

noun

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

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of scend¹

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

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of scend¹

C17: perhaps from descend or ascend

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

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

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

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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.

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

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