单词 | sea-ware |
释义 | sea-waren. Seaweed; esp. coarse, large seaweed thrown up on the shore by the sea, and used as manure, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding fuel or manure > [noun] > seaweeds used as fuel or manure warec725 sea-warec1000 kelpa1387 orewood1586 ore1587 float-ore1602 vraic1610 woad of the seaa1613 oarweed1622 bell-ware1812 laminaria1848 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 135/21 Alga, sæwaur. c1662 in G. Barry Hist. Orkney (1805) App. viii. 452 Where they and the cows do eat together sea-ware. 1725 T. Thomas in Portland Papers (Hist. MSS. Comm.) VI. 112 It is lately much improved by a manure of the sea-weed called the sea-were, which grows on the sea rocks, and is thence torn off by the waves and thrown upon the shore. 1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 29 [In Kent] sea-waure or sea-wracks, or sea-weeds, are reckoned a very good manure. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xviii. 299 Multitudes lived miserably by shell-fish and sea-ware. 1899 Folk-Lore Sept. 278 She was taking home a load of sea-ware in a cart. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1000 |
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