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sea-wrack
Forms: see wrack.
1. pl. Property cast ashore by the sea. Obs.
1548Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 61/1 Terras de Terbert, cum manerio, molendino et lie sey-wrakis earundem.
2. a. collect. Seaweed, esp. any of the large coarse kinds cast up on the shore, as Fucus, Laminaria, etc. Sometimes applied spec. to Zostera marina.
1551Turner Herbal i. K iv, Alga..is commonly called in englyshe see wrak. 1654in N. Riding Rec. V. 161 [Indicted for unjustly taking 10 horse load of sea-wreck]. 1759Martin Nat. Hist. II. Yorksh. 298 They gather up the Sea-wreck and lay it in Heaps. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. ii, Wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients. 1906F. Campbell Dearlove 29 A litter of brown sea-wrack.
b. A particular kind of seaweed.
1611Cotgr., Spariée, a sea-wrecke. Ibid., Varech, a sea-wracke, or wrecke. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii, The Spongy leaves of some Sea-wracks..are over-wrought with Net-work. 1681Grew Musæum ii. §v. ii. 248 The Bearded Sea-Wrack. Fucus capillaris tinctorius. 1846Lindley Veget. Kingd. 145 Zosteraceæ.—Sea wracks. 1852Th. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. I. i. 33 To rank it provisionally among the sea-wracks.
c. attrib. sea-wrack grass, Zostera marina.
1829Loudon Encycl. Plants 8 Zostera. Sea Wrackgrass. 1840Paxton Bot. Dict. 1861Bentley Man. Bot. 691 Zosteraceæ, the Sea-wrack Order. |