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cresting

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crest·ing  (krstng)
n.
An ornamental ridge, as on top of a wall or roof.


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Cresting seas filled me a foot or so with water, but I laughed at it sloshing about my feet, and chanted my disdain for the wind and the water.
The brig was sheering swiftly and giddily through a long, cresting swell.
The tide flowed and ebbed; the sun rose and set; regularly each afternoon the brave west wind came romping in through the Golden Gate, darkening the water, cresting tiny wavelets, making the sailboats fly.
 
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