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seaboard, n. and a.|ˈsiːbɔəd|
Forms: see sea n. and board n. Also 9 -bord.
[f. sea n. + board n.]
A. n.
†1. The plank to cover up the port-hole. Obs.
c1400Beryn 3001 Why close they the port with the see bord?
†2. With prepositions a seaboard, at seaboard, on seaboard, to seaboard, on or to the seaward side (of a ship, etc.). Obs.
a1490Botoner Itin. (1778) 110 Et insula de Ushand jacet in le seebord anglice south et north. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. cl. 165 Y⊇ wynde was so streynable on see borde, that they coude nat departe thence. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 297 [He] With mony schip to se burd passit syne. c1566in Hakluyt's Voy. (1589) 390 There lay two rocks two miles to sea boord of vs. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osorius 70 To preserve their course the better at Seaboorde. 1582Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. i. v. 13 Our men discried three Ilands a Seaboard. 1602Mansel True Rep. Service 1 My selfe being neerest that coast, Captaine Iones next vnto me, and the Dutch men of warre a Sea-boord, and to the westward of him. c1625J. Taylor (Water-P.) Braue Sea-fight Wks. 1630 iii. 40/2 The Enemie making all the sayle he could to Sea-boord of the English. c1635N. Boteler Dial. Sea Services (1685) 281 When a Ship..hath another Ship on her other side to Sea⁓ward, or (as the phrase is) to Sea-board.
†3. by (be) seaboard: by sea. on seaboard: at sea, on board ship. Obs.
1535Stewart Chron. Scot. I. 369 Out of Denmark be se burd mony myle, Ane greit armie in Albione wes send. 1549Compl. Scot. xi. 91 Nocht alanerly be gryt multitude of men of veyr, and ane grit nauen of schipis be seey burde, bot [etc.]. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osorius 420 Whenas beyng on Seaborde he was in daunger to be drowned. 1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 32 In all my tyme on Seaboorde..I have knowen nombers that were on another disposition.
4. The line where land and sea meet, the coastline; the sea-shore or the land near the sea, esp. considered with reference to its extent or configuration.
1788F. Asbury Jrnl. 10 July (1821) II. 36 The Gnats are almost as troublesome here, as the moschetoes in the low-lands of the sea-board. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 78 Certain alarming movements on the sea-board. 1840Carlyle Heroes i. (1841) 26 On the seabord of this wild land [Iceland] is a rim of grassy country, where cattle can subsist. 1860H. Miller My Schools xiii. 143/1 The population of extensive Islands and seaboards of the country. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (ed. 3) I. ii. 25 These kingdoms have a large sea-board. 1887J. Ball Nat. in S. Amer. 124 The sea-board is nearly a straight line running from north to south.
Comb.1897M. Kingsley W. Africa xxii. 316 The sea⁓board-dwelling Tschwis.
B. adj. Bordering on or adjoining the sea. rare.
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. iii. 47 There shall a Lyon from the sea-bord wood Of Neustria come roring. 1828–32Webster, Sea-bord, Sea-bordering, bordering on the sea or ocean. 1888J. Shallow Templars' Trials 8 The Hospitallers, whose property was largely sea-board, left Cyprus for Rhodes. 1909Daily Chron. 18 Aug. 4/4 The French sea⁓board hotels.
Hence ˈsea-boarder, an inhabitant of the seaboard.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. v. vii. §3. 38 The Kentish [men] and Seaborders being full of humanity, and little differing from the French ciuility. |