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sea-shore
The coast of the sea, or the land lying adjacent to the sea; also, in more restricted sense, the ground actually washed by the sea at high tides (usually, covered with sand or shingle).
In Law commonly taken to denote the ground between the ordinary high and low water-marks. See Erskine Inst. Law Scot., 1765–8, ii. vi. §17.
1526Tindale Heb. xi. 12 So many in multitude..as the sonde of the see shore which is innumerable. 1529Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. (1883) 160/1 Salmonum piscariam super le seyschoire subtus villam de Inverbervy. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 210 It hath a descent even to the very Sea shore. 1735Johnson Lobo's Abyssinia, Voy. i. 7 Finding themselves too much crouded in their own Country, [they] had extended themselves to the Sea-shore. 1831Scott Ct. Rob. v, He hastens to his bark on the sea-shore. 1843Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii. i. vii. §5 The broad wild sea⁓shore, with its bright breakers, and free winds.
attrib.1850Miss Pratt Comm. Things Sea-side i. 81 The flower of the sea-shore medick. 1852J. Wiggins Embanking 78 One of these was sea-shore land. |