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▪ I. ˈsea-going, n. Going or travelling by sea.
1848Dickens Dombey lxii, Released from sea-going, after that first long voyage with his young bride. attrib.1860All Year Round No. 66. 380 Sea-going togs, and other requirements. 1895Pop. Sci. Monthly July 401 The first seagoing chronometer..was made by him. ▪ II. ˈsea-going, a. 1. a. Going on the sea, applied to a vessel which makes distant journeys as opposed to a coasting, harbour, or river vessel.
1829Marryat F. Mildmay x, I should be sent out..in some sea-going ship. 190919th Cent. Dec. 1009 The personnel of the sea-going fleet. in fig. context.1848Dickens Dombey iv, The shop itself..seemed almost to become a snug, sea-going, ship-shape concern, wanting only good sea-room. b. Capable of being used or suitable for use on a sea-going vessel; carried or conducted by sea.
1895[see sea-going n.]. 1928C. Dawson Age of Gods viii. 182 The sea-going trade of the ægean world. 1962Listener 29 Mar. 540/1 Land-base missiles and sea-going missiles. 2. Going to the sea, esp. of a fish, catadromous.
1842Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. No. x. 4 Several of the different fry of the sea-going fish. 1888Goode Amer. Fishes 16 The sea-going rivers of Germany. 3. Travelling by sea, seafaring.
1855Kingsley Heroes, Argon. v. 166 Alcinous the rich sea-going king. 1887B. V. Head Hist. Numorum Introd. 37 Subsequently the Greeks..became a sea-going people. |