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scend

[send] 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. send 2 ; perh. aph. var. of ascend, descend
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scend also send   (sěnd)   
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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