Billow vs Ballow - What's the difference?
billow | ballow |
A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
* Cowper
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* 1922 , :
To surge or roll in billows
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II:
To swell out or bulge
As nouns the difference between billow and ballow
is that billow is a large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound while ballow is deep water inside a shoal or bar.As a verb billow
is to surge or roll in billows.As an adjective ballow is
round; pot-bellied.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,