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ˈseaway, sea-way
1. a. A way over the sea; the sea as a means of communication; the open sea. Also (nonce-use) a channel made for the sea.
a1000Ags. Ps. viii. 8 (Thorpe) Fleoᵹende fuᵹlas, and sæ⁓fiscas, þa farað ᵹeond þa sæ-weᵹas. [Vulg. qui perambulant semitas maris.] c1425Eng. Conq. Irel. xxxiii. 80 From thens thay wentten to lysmore,..robbeden & prayeden, & by the see wey senten many grete prayes to Watyrford. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxiv. 323 We passed beyond the protection of the straits into the open seaway. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 432 The graceful craft, leaning to the..south wind, swept forth towards the sea-way. 1891J. Winsor Columbus App. 641 Sebastian Münster, in his maps..makes a clear seaway to the Moluccas somewhere in the latitude of the Strait of Belle Isle.
b. An artificial or natural channel connecting two tracts of sea.
1866Daily Tel. 11 Jan. 5/4 Xerxes cut a sea-way through Mount Athos. 1977A. Hallam Planet Earth 222/1 Towards the close of the period the old seaway of Tethys was progressively eliminated as the African plate moved northwards to impinge upon the Asian plate.
c. An inland waterway with passage to the sea, esp. one capable of accommodating large ocean-going vessels. N. Amer. (chiefly in phr. St. Lawrence Seaway).
1921A. M. Evans in Chicago Daily Tribune 4 Aug. 21/7 Coastwise trade between Chicago and Atlantic ports..stands second only to the foreign commerce possibilities offered by the St. Lawrence seaway project. 1933Sun (Baltimore) 23 June 3/1 (heading) Lakes-to-the-Gulf seaway dedicated... The joining of the Great Lakes with the Gulf of Mexico..by a $102,000,000 inland waterway was completed officially today. 1941F. D. Roosevelt in Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin: Hearings (1942) I. 2, I recommend authorization of construction of the St. Lawrence seaway and power project, pursuant to the agreement of March 19, 1941, with Canada, as an integral part of the joint defense of the North American continent. 1959Times 27 June 6/5 The royal yacht Britannia..entered the 2,300-mile St. Lawrence Seaway to mark the ceremonial opening of that great engineering project. 1968Encycl. Brit. XIX. 910/2 The broader concept of the ‘seaway’, and one which is in general usage, includes the entire system of lakes, locks, canals, and rivers which have converted over 6,600 mi. (10,621 km.) of mainland Great Lakes shore line of the United States and Canada into another seacoast. 1976Leader-Post (Regina, Saskatchewan) 24 June i. 1/2 An oil spill that stretched 15 miles along the St. Lawrence Seaway.
2. ‘The progress of a ship through the waves’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867).
1787Burns Addr. to Unco Guid iv, Wi' wind and tide fair i' your tail, Right on ye scud your sea-way.
3. A rough sea. Usually in a sea-way (said of a ship).
1840Civ. Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. III. 181/2 The effects of a sea-way upon the Eddystone or Bell Rock. c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 62 Weights at the extremities cause a ship to be uneasy in a sea-way. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Sea-way,..said when a vessel is in an open place where the sea is rolling heavily. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. xxiii, The coracle..was a very safe boat.., both buoyant and clever in a seaway.
4. attrib.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Sea-way measurer, a kind of self-registering log invented by Smeaton. [The term is not used in Smeaton's paper, Phil. Trans. XLVIII. (1754) 532.] 1907Daily Chron. 6 Dec. 6/4 The Nantucket Lightship, warning seaway travellers of a deadly shoal. |