Definitions for Billows

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Billows bil·low

Spelling: [bil-oh]

IPA: /ˈbɪl oʊ/

Billows is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in Billows (billosw).

Definitions for Billows

noun

1. a great wave or surge of the sea.
2. any surging mass:

verb (used with object)

1. to make rise, surge, swell, or the like:

verb (used without object)

1. to rise or roll in or like billows; surge.
2. to swell out, puff up, etc., as by the action of wind:

Origin of Billows

1545-55; Old Norse bylgja wave, cognate with Middle Low German bulge; akin to Old English gebylgan to anger, provoke

Examples for Billows

The billow and the wind And the still waters will sweep us away Mercilessly!

Already the distant roar of the billow was heard, proving that it had begun to break.

Here he was launched on the shingle by a billow, and washed high up on the beach.

They are in circumstances in which the ripple passes into the wavelet, and the wavelet into the billow.

Then there was a bound, as if the boat had been shot from a catapult, and the billow fell.

Now she was hid from sight in the trough of the sea, now she rose to the summit of a billow.

There was a gentle flash of quick light that was smothered by a billow of smoke.

The interior of the house was a billow of red, white, and blue.

Oh, the wreck is on the billow; hasten with the means of safety.

It flared briefly and let out with a billow of thick red smoke.