sea-bankn.
1. † a. The sea-coast or sea-shore; = bank n.1 10.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun]
sea-warthc888
sea-rimOE
sea-strandc1000
sandc1275
rive1296
bankc1350
sea-banka1375
sea-coasta1400
coastc1400
warthc1450
ripec1475
landsidec1515
seashore1526
banksidec1540
brinish brink1594
shorea1616
ore1652
outland1698
sea beach1742
table-shore1849
playa1898
treaty coast1899
treaty shore1901
beach1903
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2718 Þe riche cite..vpon þe see bonke.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 5173 To þe see bank þe cors þai bring.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. i. 131 I was tother day, talking on the sea banke, with certaine Venetians.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. ii. 50 My music leads to lotty groves, That wild upon the sea-bank wave.
b. A dune or sand-hill.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > sand-hill
sand-hillc725
dene1278
down1523
sand down1604
dune1605
hummock1793
towan1803
sand-dune1830
medano1839
sea-bank1858
barchan1888
whaleback1918
fore-dune1921
seif1925
1858 A. H. Clough Amours de Voyage in Atlantic Monthly Apr. 669 The cypress-spires..Evermore growing,..Over the low sea-banks, of the fatal Ilian city.
1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard i. ii. 31 The next [star], that saw not love, saw me Between the sea-banks and the sea.
c. A sandbank; = bank n.1 4.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > reef > sandbank > [noun]
sand-ridgec1000
hurst1398
shelp1430
sand1495
ayre1539
bar1587
knock1587
sandbank1589
middle ground1653
middle1702
overslaugh1755
sandbar1767
sea-bank1828
tow-head1829
wharf1867
whale1905
horse1926
1828 J. Fleming Hist. Brit. Animals 191 This fish [the cod]..is eagerly sought after on those sea-banks which it frequents.
d. attributive.
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?c1599 C. Marlowe tr. Ovid Certaine Elegies i. i, in J. Davies & C. Marlowe Epigrammes & Elegies sig. E2v Elegian Muse..Girte my shine browe with sea banke mirtle praise [read sprays].
2. An embankment built for protection against the sea, a seawall.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > embankment or dam > [noun] > sea-wall
sea-dike1394
seawallc1450
sea-head1531
bulwark1555
sea-bank1647
swash bank1852
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. The Sea-bankes, de Zee-dijcken.
1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §96 A way to make a Sea~bank so firm..that a stream can have no power over it.
1733 Act 6 Geo. II c. 37 §5 If any Person..shall unlawfully and maliciously break down..any Sea Bank.
1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 450/1 A Sea Bank constructed..for the purpose of enclosing a quantity of sea marsh land.
Derivatives
sea-banking n. the building of sea-banks.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > embankment or dam > [noun] > sea-wall > construction of
sea-banking1852
1852 J. Wiggins Pract. Embanking Lands 2 Sea-banking, or sea-walling, has hitherto formed but a small portion of the practice of Engineers.
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