Citations:sea puss

dangerous seaward current

 * (mentiony, but clarifies meaning) 1950, in Photogrammetric Engineering, volume 16, page 760:
 * high surf. These outward moving currents are known locally as rip tides or sea pusses, but the name rip currents seems preferable especially since the phenomenon has no relation to the tide, and the origin of sea pusses is a bit uncertain, possibly originating as sea purse.
 * 1958, in the Long Island Forum, volumes 21-23, page 24:
 * During the 1956 season the Jones Beach life guards had many tussles with sea pusses. From the vantage point of their high perches the guards could easily distinguish a sea puss by the outward flow of lighter colored water.
 * (mentiony, but clarifies meaning) 1961, The Physical Educator of Phi Epsilon Kappa, volumes 18-19:
 * The "sea puss" is a rip current which is defined as seaward moving streaks of water which return the water carried landward by waves. These currents accompany large waves breaking on an exposed coast.
 * (mentiony, but clarifies meaning) 1970, Herbert Eliot French, Of rivers and the sea, page 99:
 * usually does by an offshore movement called a rip current or riptide or sea puss. "The best means of escape," he advises, "is to swim parallel to the shore until free of the current on one side or the other, where the water is shoaler and where
 * 2011, Spalding Gray, Gray's Anatomy ISBN 0307766187:
 * One day I was in, after we'd had a big storm that had created a sea puss. I had never been in a sea puss before, wasn't even aware sea pusses existed, until someone told me what they were. A sea puss is not like an undertow, but it's an odd thing in which the waves come in and break up against each other and back up, so there's a condition where the wave goes up and then goes backwards.

dangerous longshore current

 * 1920, The American Angler, volume 5, page 139:
 * At irregular intervals, swift, narrow currents or sea-pusses will be found cutting diagonally out into the ocean.

dangerous current (to be sorted)

 * 2005, Frederick Buechner, The Christmas Tide ISBN 1596270187, page 67
 * "There are a lot more waves than there are sea pusses though," Teddy said, "and they're much stronger."
 * "Of course they are," she said. "And what's more, the sea pusses always give up after a while[,] but the waves never do."

channel (to be sorted)

 * 1930, Ralph Munroe, Vincent Gilpin, The Commodore's Story, page 53:
 * Low tide favored me, however, and I now had a thorough knowledge of beaches, with their inner channels, and the cuts through the outer bar called sea-pusses, in which flows the dangerous so-called undertow,

the stormy sea, or its white waves

 * , Kate Upson Clark, The Sea Puss, in Werner's Readings and Recitations, page 170: *: [On certain portions of the coast the white, rushing waves which precede a storm are called "sea-pussies".] The ocean-cats flirted their fluffy white tails, / And flecked with salt dewdrops the fisherman's sails, / And the noise of their fighting flew over the foam, / Till the mother, leagues off, in the fisherman's home, / As she watched o'er her little ones crief: "Listen! how / The sea-puss is screeching! Just hear her me-ow!" / So, when the waves whiten, the children's hearts quail, / And, "Mother," they say, "there's a sea-pussy's tail!"