billow

/ˈbɪl.oʊ/

Etymology

Probably a variant of Bellow or Bellew.

billow means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 73 out of 100.

billow is pronounced /ˈbɪl.oʊ/.

name

A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.“[…] Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll, / From the world's girdle to the frozen pole;”

To surge or roll in billows.“During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in … Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains, […], billowing steadily eastward, it had rolled up the western slopes of the Siskiyou Range, […]”
To swell out or bulge.“Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recently brought her from Atlanta.”