单词 | sea-beaten |
释义 | sea-beatenadj. 1. Of a ship, a sailor, etc.: Tossed about or beaten by the waves of the sea. Now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [adjective] > storm-tossed forstormed1393 sea-beaten1562 sea-beat1579 storm-beaten1582 storm-beat1590 tempest-tossed1599 tempest-beaten1605 1562 A. Brooke tr. M. Bandello Tragicall Hist. Romeus & Iuliet f. 23 God graunt no daungers rocke..wracke thy sea beaten barke. 1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales Ded. f. 2v Following herein seabeaten soldiers, and miserable mariners. 1606 Bp. J. Hall Heauen vpon Earth Ded. sig. A2v Ships..both extreamely Sea-beaten and at last wracked. 1801 Mrs. Robinson Sylphid III. 142 The sea-beaten sailor. 2. Of a shore, rock, etc.: Lashed by the sea. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [adjective] > sea-lashed sea-beat1579 flood-beatc1602 sea-washed1764 sea-beaten1793 tortured1815 1793 W. Cowper Tale 19 Sea-beaten rocks and naked shores, Could yield them no retreat. 1868 R. L. Stevenson Let. July in Scribner's Mag. (1899) 25 31/1 I am utterly sick of this gray, grim, sea-beaten hole. 1883 Longman's Mag. Oct. 632 Quiet bays and sea-beaten cliffs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.1562 |
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