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scend    Audio Help   [send] Pronunciation Key Nautical
–verb (used without object) (of a vessel)
1.to heave in a swell.
2.to lurch forward from the motion of a heavy sea.
–noun
3.the heaving motion of a vessel.
4.the forward impulse imparted by the motion of a sea against a vessel.
Also, send.


[Origin: 1615–25; cf. send2; perh. aph. var. of ascend, descend]
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scend also send    Audio Help   (sěnd)  Pronunciation Key 
intr.v.   scend·ed also send·ed, scend·ing also send·ing, scends also sends
To heave upward on a wave or swell.

n.   The rising movement of a ship on a wave or swell.


[Probably alteration (influenced by descend or ascend) of send1.]

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scend

verb
rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave; "the boats surged" 

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