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    Admiral Vernon diluted sailors' daily rum rations with water in 1740, earning the new drink the name "grog" based on Vernon's nickname of "Old Grogram." While watered down, grog still left sailors feeling groggy from its effects. A ground swell is a sudden, unexplained swell of water along the shore that occurs when waves from a distant storm reach land, with the term now also referring more broadly to a growing change in public opinion.

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    Admiral Vernon diluted sailors' daily rum rations with water in 1740, earning the new drink the name "grog" based on Vernon's nickname of "Old Grogram." While watered down, grog still left sailors feeling groggy from its effects. A ground swell is a sudden, unexplained swell of water along the shore that occurs when waves from a distant storm reach land, with the term now also referring more broadly to a growing change in public opinion.

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    Ground Swell

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    Admiral Vernon diluted sailors' daily rum rations with water in 1740, earning the new drink the name "grog" based on Vernon's nickname of "Old Grogram." While watered down, grog still left sailors feeling groggy from its effects. A ground swell is a sudden, unexplained swell of water along the shore that occurs when waves from a distant storm reach land, with the term now also referring more broadly to a growing change in public opinion.

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    Grog, Groggy

    Rum diluted with water. Brandy was part of a sailors daily rations in the Royal Navy until the
    conquest of Jamaica in 1687 when rum replaced it. In 1740, Admiral Vernon decided his fleet got
    a little too much rum and issued an order to have the daily ration of one pint of rum diluted with
    water. Since Vernons nickname was Old Grogram because of the material out of which his
    (apparently rather ostentatious) boat cloak was made. The watered down rum immediately
    became known as grog. Groggy is what happens to you when you indulge in it (even watered
    down).
    Ground Swell
    A sudden swell, which is the rise of water, along the shore. It often happens when the weather is
    fine and the sea behind it appears calm. Said to occur when undulating water from a far away
    storm reaches the shoreline where friction causes the swell. In common use, the term
    groundswell means a growing change in public opinion.

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