Show wave names I 1 have a note of some curious jamea given locally to the waves on different parts of our coast that may be worthy of record these were culled from tho family herald a few years ago I 1 cannot give the date the names are curiously varied and sometimes not a little suggestive the peterhead Pete folk call the large breakers that fall with a crash on the beach by the grim name of horkawa Hor rawa norway carpenters on the low lincolnshire Lincoln shire coast as on the southwestern atlantic fronting shore of these islands the grandly long unbroken waves are known as rollers among a heavy surf tumbling in with an offshore wind or in a calm is called by the expressive name of a slog marked swell roll ri ingin independently of any blowing is called a home there is no wind a suffolk fisherman will say but a nasty home on the beach suffolk men also speak of the bark of the surf and a sea covered with foam is spoken of as feather white the foam itself is known as spoon drift so in the vernacular we have it the sea was all a feather white with spoon drift katea and queries |