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ˈsea-ware
Also 8 -were, 8–9 -waur(e.
[OE. sǽwár, f. sǽ sea + wár ‘alga’: see ware n.2]
Seaweed; esp. coarse, large seaweed thrown up on the shore by the sea, and used as manure, etc.
c1000ælfric Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 135/21 Alga, sæwaur. c1662in G. Barry Orkney Isl. (1805) 452 Where they and the cows do eat together sea-ware. 1725T. Thomas in Portland Papers (Hist. MSS. Comm.) VI. 112 It is lately much improved by a manure of the sea-weed called the sea-were, which grows on the sea rocks, and is thence torn off by the waves and thrown upon the shore. 1763Museum Rust. I. 29 [In Kent] sea-waure or sea-wracks, or sea-weeds, are reckoned a very good manure. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits xviii. 299 Multitudes lived miserably by shell-fish and sea⁓ware. 1899Folk-Lore Sept. 278 She was taking home a load of sea-ware in a cart. |