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ˈsea-line
[line n.2]
1. The coast-line or sea-board.
a1687Petty Pol. Arith. iv. (1690) 78 The Sea-line of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the adjacent Islands, is about Three thousand Eight hundred Miles. 1884W. C. Smith Kildrostan I. i. 21 Oaks along the low sea-line Are greenly feathered with fern and moss.
2. The horizon, the line where sea and sky seem to meet.
1880W. Watson Prince's Quest (1892) 58 When the sealine grew O'erhazed with visible heat. 1888Stevenson Across the Plains, etc. (1892) 193 The sea-line rough as a wood with sails.
fig.a1881Rossetti House of Life x, May know The very sky and sea-line of her soul.
3. A line used at sea; (a) a sounding line; (b) a long line used in sea-fishing in deep water.
1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 896 These passages are not cited with so vain a purpose as that of furnishing a sea-line for measuring the ‘soundless deeps’ of Jeremy Taylor. 1836Yarrell Brit. Fishes II. 145 One mode is by deep sea-lines, called bulters, on the Cornish coast. |