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ˈsea-fight
A naval battle, a fight or engagement between ships at sea.
1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 292 Behold the issue of the sea fight. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. iii. 26. 1625 Bacon Ess., Greatness Kingd. (Arb.) 489 There be many Examples, where Sea-Fights haue beene Finall to the warre. 1690Evelyn Diary 7 Mar., He concluded there would shortly be no other method of sea-fight. c1700in Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1765) III. 59 Mr. William Vandevelde, senior, late painter of sea-fights to their majesties king Charles II. and king James dyed 1693. 1842W. C. Taylor Anc. Hist. ix. §5 (ed. 3) 241 The naval engagement between the Corcyrians and Corinthians (b.c. 650) is the first sea⁓fight recorded in history. 1858Longfellow My Lost Youth v, I remember the sea-fight far away, How it thundered o'er the tide! |