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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Surf \Surf\, noun [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.
{Surf bird} (Zo["o]l.), a ploverlike bird of the genus {Aphriza}, allied to the turnstone.
{Surf clam} (Zo["o]l.), a large clam living on the open coast, especially {Mactra solidissima} (syn. {Spisula solidissima}). See {Mactra}.
{Surf duck} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of California embiotocoid fishes. See {Embiotocoid}.
{Surf smelt}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Smelt}.
{Surf whiting}. (Zo["o]l.) See under {Whiting}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Surf \Surf\, noun The bottom of a drain. [Prov. Eng.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
surf
noun: waves breaking on the shore [syn: {breaker}, {breakers}]
verb
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
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.
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
SURF System Utilization Reporting Facility
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