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decuman
/ˈdɛkjʊmən/
adj 2noun 1
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1DECUMAN + NOUN
billows
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adj
1
Large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence.
decuman billows
2
Connected with the principal gate of an Ancient Roman camp, near which the tenth cohort of the legion was stationed.
noun
1
An extraordinarily large billow.
Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, / […] / Remembering shocks of surf that clomb and fell, / Spume-sliding down the baffled decuman, […]
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decuman billows
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Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, / […] / Remembering shocks of
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