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ˈsea-girt, a.
Girt or surrounded by the sea. (Sometimes said of a peninsula or of a place that has the sea almost completely surrounding it.)
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. i. (1632) 12 Sea-girt Tenedos. 1670Milton Brutus 9 in Hist. Brit., In th' Ocean wide Beyond the Realm of Gaul, a Land there lies, Sea-girt it lies. 1797D. Simpson Plea Relig. (1808) 170 The little sea-girt empire of the Knights of Malta. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. xxviii, The joys and sorrows sailors find, Coop'd in their winged sea-girt citadel. 1818Shelley Rosal. & Helen 1050 A green and sea-girt promontory. 1856Stanley Sinai & P. vi. (ed. 3) 262 That sea-girt city [Cæsarea]. 1897‘A. Hope’ Phroso i, Round sea-girt rocks. |