Definitions for scends

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Spelling: [send]

IPA: /sɛnd/

Scends is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in scends (cdenss).

Definitions for scends

noun

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

verb (used without object)

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

Origin of scends

1615-25; cf. send²; perhaps aphetic variant of ascend, descend

Examples for scends

In an hour and a half after this, we reached and crossed the river scend, about two miles from the top of the ghaut.

scend, send, n. the upward angular displacement of a vessel—opposed to Pitch, the correlative downward movement.

This fort stands on the river scend; and two sides of it are protected and guarded by that river, which is deep.