单词 | sea-stream |
释义 | sea-streamn.ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun] > sea sea-streamOE streamc1405 ocean current1837 ocean-river1852 land-stream1868 slope current1931 OE Andreas (1932) 749 Godes ece bearn, þone þe grund ond sund, heofon ond eorðan ond hreo wægas, salte sæstreamas ond swegl uppe amearcode mundum sinum. a1225 St. Marher. 9/34 Þu steorest te sea stream hit fleden ne mot fir þan þu markedest. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 165 He iwende sorhful ouer sea-streames [c1300 Otho see-stremes]. into Griclonde. 2. (See quot.) ΚΠ 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 228 A stream is an oblong collection of drift or bay-ice, the pieces of which are continuous. It is called a sea-stream, when it is exposed on one side to the ocean, and affords shelter from the sea, to whatever is within it. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.OE |
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