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单词 sea-ground
释义

sea-groundn.

Forms: see sea n. and ground n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sea n., ground n.
Etymology: < sea n. + ground n.Compare Middle Low German sēgrunt. Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsea-ground.
1. The bottom of the sea (cf. ground n. 1a).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > [noun] > sea bed
groundOE
sea-groundOE
channela1387
sea-bottoma1400
ocean bed1638
ocean floor1820
sea bed1838
ocean basin1848
ocean bottom1855
sea-floor1855
OE Beowulf 564 Sægrunde neah.
c1220 Bestiary 517 in Old Eng. Misc. 16 Ðis fis wuneð wið ðe se grund.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20952 A dai and of a night to stound He [sc. Paul] was stad atte see ground.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 640 The ankir... To þe se gronde doune slypp.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xii. 569/2 The shippe..sunke sodainely to the Sea-ground.
2. plural. ? Land covered at high tide by the sea.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > covered by sea
washc1440
sea-common1584
salting1712
inksa1740
tide-land1787
sea-grounds1826
salting-mound1908
shore1919
tide-water1949
1826 R. V. Barnewall & C. Cresswell Rep. Cases King's Bench 4 486 The messuage,..sea-grounds, oyster-layings [etc.].
1826 R. V. Barnewall & C. Cresswell Rep. Cases King's Bench 4 491 The words sea-grounds, by themselves, would have been sufficient to pass the right of soil in the shore.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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