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ˈsea-island, a. and n.
A. adj. The designation of a fine variety of cotton, Gossypium barbadense, distinguished by long silky fibres, grown on the islands off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, now also acclimatized in other countries. Also absol.
1803J. Davis Travels in U.S.A. 78 Of cotton there are two kinds; the sea-island and the island. The first is the most valuable. 1807Salmagundi 15 Oct. 327 The lady of a Southern planter will..trail a bale of sea-island cotton at her heels. 1834McCulloch Dict. Comm. (ed. 2) 436 s.v. Cotton, The best of the first [sc. long stapled cotton] is the sea-island cotton, or that brought from the shores of Georgia. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 344 Having a breadth varying from 1/800 of an inch in the strongest Smyrna or candle-wick cotton of the Levant, to 1/2500 of an inch in the finest Sea-island. 1858Homans Cycl. Comm. 438/1 The sea-island plant yields about 125 or 130 pounds of clean ginned cotton per acre. 1934Nat. Geogr. Mag. Feb. 260/2 At Hampton Point and Retreat the first sea-island cotton was grown from seeds introduced from the island of Anguilla, in the West Indies. 1970Observer 15 Mar. 48/6 (Advt.), Shirts and pyjamas made to measure, sea island poplins..pure silk. 1977P. Moyes To kill Coconut xiii. 180 Sea Island isn't grown only in the Caribbean.
B. n. An offshore mooring station where oil tankers can discharge their cargo and from which the oil can be pumped ashore.
1975Offshore Engineer Sept. 17 (caption) When linked to the ‘sea islands’ already installed, it will be more than 1 km long. 1979F. Forsyth Devil's Alternative ix. 218 They berthed at ‘sea islands’, networks of pipes on stilts, well out to sea, from which their oil could be pumped ashore. |