单词 | seawalled |
释义 | > as lemmassea-walled sea-walled adj. surrounded or protected by the sea as a wall of defence. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > [adjective] > defended > by the sea sea-walled1597 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iv. 44 When our sea-walled garden the whole land Is full of weedes. View more context for this quotation sea-walled 2. The sea as a wall or barrier of defence. Cf. sea-walled. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > [noun] > means of defence > sea as wall1436 seawall1879 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such xviii. 327 Many of us have thought that our sea-wall is a specially divine arrangement. < as lemmas |
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