Wave Names

1 have a note oi some eurious ñames given locally to the waydfe on different parte of our coast that may be srorthy of record. These were eulled from Tlm Family Herald i few years ágo. I cannot give the exact date. The ñames are curiously varied uvA soraetiníes uot a little suggestive. The Eeterhead folk cali (hs large breakers that í'all with a cra.sh cu the beach by the grijn name of "XoiTuwa (Norway) carpejíters. " On the l'ow Lincolnshire coast, as on the southweateru Atlautic frontiiig ehore of these islands, thegrandly longnnbroken wavrs are known as "rollers." Amoag EastAnglians a heavy surf, tumbliiig in with au offshore wind, or in a ealm, is callad I y i!-_( expressive ótame of a "slo;r, " v.liile awcll niarked swell, í-olling in iiiaepeiideutly of any blowiug, is called a "bdiuc. ' "There is no wind," a íáuffolk ii.shcnnan will say, "but a Basty home on the beach. " Suffolk men also 8iak of the "bark" of the surf , and a sea coveivd with í'o.un is spoken of as "feather white. " Thefoam iteelf is known as "spbou drift. " So in the vernacular wc h:ive it, "The sea was all a feather white with rdooii drift." -