head sea

1. 1.

   a sea in which the waves are running directly against the course of the ship

   Broadersea

Questions about head sea

What does head sea mean?

head sea means "a sea in which the waves are running directly against the course of the ship".

Is head sea a common word?

head sea is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.