decuman

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence.

   “decuman billows”

2. sıfat Connected with the principal gate of an Ancient Roman camp, near which the tenth cohort of the legion was stationed.
3. isim An extraordinarily large billow.

   “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, […]”