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sea-stream
[= OS. sêo-strôm.]
†1. An ocean current: poet. the sea. Obs.
a1000Andreas 749 (Gr.) Salte sæstreamas. c1205Lay. 326 He iwende sorhful ouer sea streames into Griclonde. a1225St. Marher. 9/34 Þu steorest te sea stream þ̶ hit fleden ne mot fir þan þu markedest.
2. (See quot.)
1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. I. 228 A stream is an oblong collection of drift or bay-ice, the pieces of which are continuous. It is called a sea-stream, when it is exposed on one side to the ocean, and affords shelter from the sea, to whatever is within it. 1867in Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. |