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Quote:An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. [Nicholas Chamfort]



Definitions of: surge

Definition: A spring; a fountain.

Definition: A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind.

Definition: The motion of, or produced by, a great wave.

Definition: The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.

Definition: To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).

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