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sea-voyage
A voyage by sea.
1609Field Woman a Weathercock i. (1612) C 2, Captain, what think'st thou of such a woman in a long Sea Voyage? a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems (1656) 204 Life a Sea-voyage is, Death is the Haven. 1726Swift Gulliver ii. iv, Having been long used to sea voyages, those motions, although sometimes very violent, did not much discompose me. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 224 [He] appeared to have newly arrived from a sea-voyage.
So sea-voyager, one who goes on a sea-voyage; sea-voyaging, going on a sea-voyage.
1622Drayton Poly-olb. xix. Argt. 10 Our Brittish braue Sea-voyagers. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Voy. to Eng. Wks. (Bohn) II. 12 ‘There are many advantages’, says Saadi, ‘in sea-voyaging, but security is not one of them’. 1906Westm. Gaz. 10 Apr. 10/1 Captain Alexander Simpson, who has just completed two million miles of sea-voyaging. |