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Billow vs Ballow - What's the difference?

billow | ballow |

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)
  • A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
  • * Cowper
  • whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll
  • * 18?? , :
  • And the brooklet has found the billow / Though they flowed so far apart.
  • * 1922 , :
  • 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)
  • To surge or roll in billows
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II:
  • 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,
  • To swell out or bulge
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    ballow

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) balowe, balwe, balgh, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Round; pot-bellied.
  • Etymology 2

    Origin unknown.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) Deep water inside a shoal or bar.
  • Etymology 3

    Origin obscure.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A cudgel.
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