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ˈsea-borne, a.
[borne ppl. a.]
1. Conveyed by sea. (Said usually of articles of commerce.)
1823Edin. Rev. XXXVIII. 236/1 Very few buildings have..been erected of sea-borne stone. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 996 The best sea-borne English lime. 1850H. Martineau Hist. Peace iv. xi. (1877) III. 79 A reduction of duties on sea-borne coal. 1864Burton Scot Abr. II. ii. 152 To the sea-borne traveller it is the most conspicuous stronghold along the sea-coast. 1910Spectator 11 June 920/1 Germany would never run the risk of invading France by a sea-borne expedition.
2. Of a ship, etc.: Carried or floating on the sea. See also quot. 1867.
1840Evid. Hull Docks Comm. 44 A dock of sufficient depth for sea-borne vessels. 1857Gosse Omphalos ii. 51 The impressions..would have been totally obliterated, if the trees had been sea-borne and shore-rolled, as pretended. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Sea-borne, arrived from a voyage: said of freighted ships also afloat.
3. ellipt. quasi-n. Sea-borne coal. Used attrib.
1892Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Feb. 5/1 The number of men on strike this morning is 7,500, many of the ‘seaborne’ men having left work since yesterday morning. |