Meaning Of The Word Billow

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billow
countable noun: A billow of smoke or dust is a large mass of it rising slowly into the air.
verb: When smoke or cloud billows, it moves slowly upwards or across the sky.
verb: When something made of cloth billows, it swells out and moves slowly in the wind.

billow in American English
a large wave; great swell of water
to make billow or surge
to surge, swell, or rise like or in a billow
intransitive verb: to rise or roll in or like billows; surge
noun: a great wave or surge of the sea
transitive verb: to make rise, surge, swell, or the like

billow in British English
noun: a large sea wave
verb: to rise up, swell out, or cause to rise up or swell out

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