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ocean floor

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ocean floor [′ō·shən ′flȯr]
(geology)
The near-horizontal surface of the ocean basin.


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For the scene before him was but the background in his brain for the vision of peace that was his--a vision that was his often during long nights on the bridge when the old Tryapsic wallowed on the vexed ocean floor, her decks awash, her rigging thrumming in the gale gusts or snow squalls or driving tropic rain.
 
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