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wave washing

noun

Etymology

From wave + washing (“move or erode by the force of water”).

  1. inherited from *waskandz✻ — “washing”
  2. inherited from *waskandī✻
  3. inherited from *wæsċende//*wasċende✻
  4. inherited from waschyng//wasschinge//wasschynge//wassende//wesschinge
  5. compounded as wave washing — “wave + washing”

Definitions

  1. A form of hunting used by some pods of orcas to drive a prey animal (such as a seal)…

    A form of hunting used by some pods of orcas to drive a prey animal (such as a seal) seeking refuge on a sheet of ice into the water, in which members of the pod swim together at high speed towards the sheet to create a powerful wave that breaks it up.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA