Surge

1. v. i. To slip along a windlass.
2. n. A spring; a fountain.
3. n. A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind.
4. n. The motion of, or produced by, a great wave.
5. n. The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
6. v. i. To swell; to rise hifg and roll.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.