sea-linen.
1. The coastline or seaboard.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > coast line
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the sea's sidea1400
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sea-edge1820
coast-line1861
ocean line1870
ria coast1899
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a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) iv. 78 The Sea-line of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the adjacent Islands, is about Three thousand Eight hundred Miles.
1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan i. 21 Oaks along the low sea-line Are greenly feathered with fern and moss.
2. The horizon, the line where sea and sky seem to meet.
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the world > the earth > region of the earth > horizon > [noun]
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weather-gleam1802
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sea-horizon1822
verge1822
sea-line1880
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1880 W. Watson Prince's Quest 58 When the sealine grew O'erhazed with visible heat.
1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains vi. 193 The sea-line rough as a wood with sails.
3. A line used at sea; (a) a sounding line; (b) a long line used in sea-fishing in deep water.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > deep-sea long-line
great line1567
long line1688
sea-line1828
tow1834
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > sounding-line or -rod
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fathom line1598
plumb line1648
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sounder1811
sea-line1828
1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 896 These passages are not cited with so vain a purpose as that of furnishing a sea-line for measuring the ‘soundless deeps’ of Jeremy Taylor.
1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 145 One mode is by deep sea-lines, called bulters, on the Cornish coast.
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