Billot vs Billow - What's the difference?
billot | billow |
A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
* Cowper
* 18?? , :
* 1922 , :
To surge or roll in billows
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II:
To swell out or bulge
As nouns the difference between billot and billow
is that billot is bullion in the bar or mass while billow is a large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.As a verb billow is
to surge or roll in billows.billow
English
Noun
(en noun)- whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll
- And the brooklet has found the billow / Though they flowed so far apart.
- Have the swirling sands engulfed them, on a noon of storm when the desert rose like the sea, and rolled its tawny billows on the walled gardens of the green and fragrant lands?
Verb
(en verb)- During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in … Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains,
