Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Decuman

Decuman , adjective

[Latin decumanus of the tenth, and by metonymy, large, from decem ten.]

Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively.
Such decuman billows. — Gauden
The baffled decuman. — Lowell