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/ˈdɛkjʊmən/ · adjective
(obsolete) Large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence..
decuman billows
Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, / […] / Remembering shocks of surf that clomb and fell, / Spume-sliding down the baffled decuman, […]
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Decuman means (obsolete) Large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence..
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decuman billows
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