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Re: Lost at Sea
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2012 Dec 16, 01:23 -0800

I didn't find that definition in my dictionaries.

Larousse's:

Strong current ;

Raz de Marée: tidal wave; tide race.
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Harrap's

Strong current; race.

Raz de marée, tidal wave.
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Bing translate

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Raz

Dictionary

raz [rɑ]
m: raz de marée tidal wave (aussi fig)

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Google translate:
tidal

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noun
		race	course, race, raz, courant fort, cours

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So thanks for improving my vocabulary.

So it means the "end of the breast".

gl

--- On Wed, 12/12/12, Antoine Couëtte <antoine.m.couette@club-internet.fr> wrote:

From: Antoine Couëtte <antoine.m.couette@club-internet.fr>
Subject: [NavList] Re: Lost at Sea
To: NavList@fer3.com
Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 8:41 AM

R u kidding, Gary ?
Kermit
Raz, is a very old name (in gaelic) to mean land's end, we have "Raz de Sein", "Raz Blanchard", very close from the word "ras" in arabic such as "ras bir" in Somalia.
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