sea-strandn.
Obsolete exc. archaic.
= seashore n.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun]
sea-warthc888
sea-rimOE
sea-strandc1000
sandc1275
rive1296
bankc1350
sea-banka1375
sea-coasta1400
coastc1400
warthc1450
ripec1475
landsidec1515
seashore1526
banksidec1540
brinish brink1594
shorea1616
ore1652
outland1698
sea beach1742
table-shore1849
playa1898
treaty coast1899
treaty shore1901
beach1903
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 68/29 Beraþ..þa stanas to sæ-strande.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4606 At Port-chæstre heo comen alond. & stepen up a sæ-strond [c1300 Otho þat see-strond].
c1303 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 188 Betere hem were at home in huere londe, Then for te seche Flemmysshe by the see stronde.
14.. Beues 515 (MS. C) They arevyd at þe see stronde.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cx He..came to the sea stronde at Douer.
1849 J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante Inferno xxx. 361 Hecuba..on the sea-strand forlorn.
1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard i. ii. 31 Between the sea-strand and the sea.
1882 F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads I. i. 112/2 They come to a sea-strand or other water.
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