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North Sea
[Cf. (= 1 b) MDu. Nort-, Noortzee (Du. Noordzee), G. Nordsee, Da. -sö, Sw. -sjö.]
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†a. The Bristol Channel. Obs. rare.
c894O.E. Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 894, [Hi] ymbsæton an ᵹeweorc on Defnascire be þære norþ sæ. a1490Botoner Itin. (Nasmith) 123 Le north-see. Villæ principales super mare boriale sitæ. Primo Seyt Hyes.
b. The German Ocean.
c1290St. Kenelm 17 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 345 To þe Northse hombur geth. 1720Ramsay Prosp. Plenty 2 In lays immortal chant the North-sea's praise. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) II. i. iii. 17 The mouth of the Elbe, at the north-sea, is about thirteen..miles distance. 1841Penny Cycl. XXI. 147/2 The Baltic..receives so great a supply of river-water, that its level is higher than that of the North Sea. 1859Tennyson Elaine 481 A wild wave in the wide North-sea.
attrib.1705Lond. Gaz. No. 4103/4 Newfoundland Bank-Fish,..equal to the North-Sea Cod. 1720Ramsay (heading), Prospect of Plenty: A Poem on the North-Sea Fishery. 1891Clark Russell Marr. at Sea v, A staunch little craft..built for North Sea weather.
c. North Sea gas, North Sea oil: raw materials discovered beneath the North Sea.
1965Times 22 Sept. 10/6 The BP gas find radically alters the North Sea oil and gas search. 1967Guardian 4 Jan. 3/1 Bringing North Sea gas ashore in Norfolk. 1972Ibid. 8 June 9/1 The tests were carried out in households supplied by North Sea gas and those supplied by town gas. 1973Ibid. 2 Mar. 15/7 North Sea oil will go a long way to reducing Britain's dependence on the volatile Middle East. 1974Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 28 Apr. 20 It is a feature of the story of North Sea oil that men encountering its immensities can find themselves in conflict with their previous positions. 1975Sat. Rev. 25 Jan. 16/3 Britain retiring into a new insularity fueled by North Sea oil.
†2. The sea to the north of (central) Europe; the Baltic. Obs. rare.
c1000ælfric Vet. Test. (Gr.) 4 Of Iaphet..com þæt norðerne mennisc be þære norðsæ. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. x. viii. (Bodl. MS.), Þe norþe see is but litel salt. Ibid. xiv. ii, Londe þt is nyȝe to þe [souþe] see is more [hot] and moiste þanne londe þat is nyȝe to þe norþe see.
3. pl. The seas of the northern hemisphere.
1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 33 In these places they made the north and south seas their bounds. 1726Swift Gulliver i. viii, An English Merchant-man, returning from Japan by the North and South Seas.
4. (See quot.)
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 500 North Sea, the Jamaica name for the north swell. |