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Pooping [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The shock of a heavy sea on the stern or quarter of a ship, when scudding in a tempest; also, the action of one ship's running her stem against another's stern.

Pooping [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.

Pooping [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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