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单词 sea-ware
释义

sea-waren.

Forms: Also 1700s -were, 1700s–1800s -waur(e.
Etymology: Old English sǽwár , < sea n. + wár ‘alga’: see ware n.2Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsea-ware.
Seaweed; esp. coarse, large seaweed thrown up on the shore by the sea, and used as manure, etc.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding fuel or manure > [noun] > seaweeds used as fuel or manure
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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.
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