[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

surf \surf\, n. formerly spelled suffe, and probably the same
   word as e. sough.
   the swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a
   sloping beach.
   1913 webster

   surf bird zool., a ploverlike bird of the genus
      aphriza, allied to the turnstone.

   surf clam zool., a large clam living on the open coast,
      especially mactra solidissima syn. spisula
      solidissima. see mactra.

   surf duck zool., any one of several species of sea ducks
      of the genus oidemia, especially oidemia
      percpicillata; -- called also surf scoter. see the note
      under scoter.

   surf fish zool., any one of numerous species of
      california embiotocoid fishes. see embiotocoid.

   surf smelt. zool. see smelt.

   surf whiting. zool. see under whiting.
      1913 webster
see also:
surf bird aphriza surf clam mactra solidissima spisula solidissima mactra 
surf duck oidemia oidemia percpicillata surf scoter scoter 
surf fish embiotocoid surf smelt smelt surf whiting 
whiting 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

surf \surf\, n.
   the bottom of a drain. prov. eng.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

surf
     n : waves breaking on the shore syn: breaker, breakers
     v 1: ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard; "californians
          love to surf"
     2: look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything
        in particular; "browse a computer directory"; "surf the
        internet or the world wide web" syn: browse
     3: switch channels, on television syn: channel-surf
see also:
breaker breakers browse channel-surf 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

62 moby thesaurus words for "surf":
   billow, bore, breakers, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, collar,
   comb, comber, dirty water, eagre, foam, froth, gravity wave,
   ground swell, head, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, lather, lift,
   lop, meringue, mousse, offscum, peak, popple, puff, riffle, ripple,
   rise, roll, roller, rough water, scend, scud, scum, sea, sea foam,
   send, soapsuds, souffle, spindrift, spoondrift, spray, spume,
   stinging, suds, surge, swell, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave,
   trough, tsunami, undulation, water wave, wave, wavelet,
   white horses, white water, whitecaps

[5] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

surf
     system utilization reporting facility
     
     

[6] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

surf v. from the `surf' idiom for rapidly flipping tv channels to
   traverse the internet in search of interesting stuff, used esp. if one
   is doing so with a world wide web browser. it is also common to speak of
   `surfing in' to a particular resource.

   hackers adopted this term early, but many have stopped using it since
   it went completely mainstream around 1995. the passive, couch-potato
   connotations that go with tv channel surfing were never pleasant, and
   hearing non-hackers wax enthusiastic about "surfing the net" tends to
   make hackers feel a bit as though their home is being overrun by
   ignorami.

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