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ˈsea-eel
A salt-water eel, a conger.
c1050Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 447/36 Murenula, sææl. 1585Jas. VI Ess. Poesie, Sonn. viii. (Arb.) 16 As whailes so huge, and Sea eylis rare, that be Myle longs, in crawling cruikis of sixtie pace. 1704tr. Nieuhof's Voy. Brasil Churchill's Collect. III. 347 There is another kind of Sea-Eels, or rather Water-Serpents in the Indies, of about three foot long [etc.]. 1761Ann. Reg. i. 189 A sea eel, 6 feet long..weighing 30lb. was lately taken..at Whitstable. 1886Sheldon tr. Flaubert's Salammbô i. 15 On her neck she wore a collection of luminous gems which imitated in their medley the scales of a sea-eel. |