decuman

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decuman - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Decuman \Dec"u*man\, a. [L. decumanus of the tenth, and by
     metonymy, large, fr. decem ten.]
     Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed
     by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used
     substantively. "Such decuman billows." --Gauden. "The baffled
     decuman." --Lowell.