broken water

Vain indeed must be our attempt to describe the awful aspect, the mad music, the fearful violence of “broken water” on the Break!

As they entered the broken water Jack was obliged to take a step back and hold on to the mast.

It was nasty work when we anchored in broken water near the wreck, and she jumped about so I thought the mast would have gone.

Round she came, hustling through the broken water of the bar, till her nose was south and the wind was on the starboard bow.

The Maggie was resting easily on the beach, with the broken water from the long lazy combers surging well up above her water line.