Usually means: Waves hitting ship from front.
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  1. head sea: Merriam-Webster
  2. head sea: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. head sea: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. head sea: Collins English Dictionary
  5. head sea: Vocabulary.com
  6. head sea: Wordnik
  7. head sea: Wiktionary
  8. head sea: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Head sea, head sea: Dictionary.com
  10. Head sea: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. head sea: Rhymezone
  12. head-sea: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. head sea: FreeDictionary.org
  14. head sea: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. head sea: TheFreeDictionary.com

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Head Sea: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (head sea)

▸ noun:  A sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls against her course.

Similar:
beam sea, stemhead, seaway, beakhead, headland, beak-head, cross sea, sea-brink, green sea, seaboard, more...

Opposite:
following sea, tailwind, downwind

Types:
following sea, beam sea, quartering sea, broad on beam, more...

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Similar:
beam sea, stemhead, seaway, beakhead, headland, beak-head, cross sea, sea-brink, green sea, seaboard, more...

Opposite:
following sea, tailwind, downwind

Types:
following sea, beam sea, quartering sea, broad on beam, more...



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