单词 | sea-wrack |
释义 | sea-wrackn. 1. plural. Property cast ashore by the sea. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > personal or movable property > flotsam or jetsam shipwreck?a1100 wreke1420 wrecka1425 wrack1428 jetsam1491 waveson1526 wrake1544 sea-wracks1548 water1552 wracksa1586 flotsam1607 wrack-goods1671 floatage1672 wreck-goods1693 jettison1708 wreck-wood1821 wreckages1864 1548 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 61/1 Terras de Terbert, cum manerio, molendino et lie sey-wrakis earundem. 2. a. collective. Seaweed, esp. any of the large coarse kinds cast up on the shore, as Fucus, Laminaria, etc. Sometimes applied spec. to Zostera marina. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] sea-frothc1440 wrekec1440 ooze?c1475 wreck1499 wrack1513 moss1543 reek1545 wrake1547 sea-wrack1551 seaweed1577 varec1676 wreck-weed1821 Algal alliance1846 wreck-ware1865 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. K iv Alga..is commonly called in englyshe see wrak. 1654 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1887) V. [Indicted for unjustly taking 10 horse load of sea-wreck]. 1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. II. 298 They gather up the Sea-wreck and lay it in Heaps. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. ii. 3/1 Wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients. 1906 F. Campbell Dearlove 29 A litter of brown sea-wrack. b. A particular kind of seaweed. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > of unspecified or various types sea-grass1591 rockweed1599 sea-tree1601 zoster1601 float-ore1602 vraic1610 sea-wrack1611 spangle-wort1681 trunk-weed1730 turtle-grass1736 sea-pine1762 agar-agar1769 greenweed1820 bull-kelpc1929 agarophyte1944 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Spariée, a sea-wrecke. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Varech, a sea-wracke, or wrecke. 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 124 The Spongy leaves of some Sea-wracks..are over-wrought with Net-work. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. § v. ii. 248 The Bearded Sea-Wrack. Fucus capillaris tinctorius. 1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 145 Zosteraceæ.—Sea wracks. 1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. I. i. 33 To rank it provisionally among the sea-wracks. Compounds sea-wrack grass n. Zostera marina. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > grass-wrack sweet-grass1577 grass wrack1633 grass weed1658 eel-grass1790 zostera1819 sea-wrack grass1836 sea-grass1857–8 wigeon grass1857 wigeon weed1893 zos-grass1937 1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 8 (table) Zostera. L. Sea Wrackgrass. 1840 J. Paxton Pocket Bot. Dict. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 691 Zosteraceæ.—the Sea-wrack Order. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021). > as lemmassea-wrack Also cart-wrack, kelp-wrack, lady-wrack, sea-wrack.extracted from wrackn.2< n.1548 as lemmas |
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