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Tillow vs Billow - What's the difference?

tillow | billow |

As nouns the difference between tillow and billow

is that tillow is while billow is a large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.

As verbs the difference between tillow and billow

is that tillow is while billow is to surge or roll in billows.

tillow

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) *. More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • Branch; twig; shoot.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) *.

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To spread; branch out; send forth shoots.

    • 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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