breach - The leap of a whale out of the water or the breaking of waves over a vessel or onto a coast; it is also the act of breaking.
plangent - Describes the sound of the sea and its waves—reverberating and mournfully resonant.
swaff - To come one over another, like waves upon a shore.
lop - The state of the sea when it has waves that are short and lumpy, hence "loppy," when it is choppy and lumpy.

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