SURF
WordNet
noun
(1) Waves breaking on the shore
verb
(2) Switch channels, on television
(3) Look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular
"Browse a computer directory"
"Surf the internet or the world wide web"
(4) Ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard
"Californians love to surf"
WiktionaryText
Homophones
- serf (in accents with the fern-fir-fur merger)
Noun
- Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- ...perhaps it was the look of the island, with its gray, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach...
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island