sea-borneadj.
1. Conveyed by sea. (Said usually of articles of commerce.)
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [adjective]
waterborne1654
sea-borne1673
1673 G. Croke Let. 20 Nov. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1975) X. 367 You will do me a great favour to lend me some seaborne bookes wch I cannot buy & are mention'd in your Ph. Transactions.
1823 Edinb. Rev. 38 236/1 Very few buildings have..been erected of sea-borne stone.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 996 The best sea-borne English lime.
1850 H. Martineau Introd. Hist. Peace (1877) III. iv. xi. 79 A reduction of duties on sea-borne coal.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. ii. 152 To the sea-borne traveller it is the most conspicuous stronghold along the sea-coast.
1910 Spectator 11 June 920/1 Germany would never run the risk of invading France by a sea-borne expedition.
2. Of a ship, etc.: Carried or floating on the sea. See also quot. 1867.
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [adjective] > floating (of a vessel)
afloat?1473
fluctuant1605
waterborne1608
sea-borne1840
sea-float1880
1840 Evid. Hull Docks Comm. 44 A dock of sufficient depth for sea-borne vessels.
1857 P. H. Gosse Omphalos ii. 51 The impressions..would have been totally obliterated, if the trees had been sea-borne and shore-rolled, as pretended.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sea-borne, arrived from a voyage: said of freighted ships also afloat.
3. elliptical quasi-n. Sea-borne coal. Used attributively.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun]
coal1253
sea-coal1253
pit-coal1483
cannel1541
earth coala1552
horse coal1552
Newcastle coal1552
stone-coal1585
cannel coal1587
parrot1594
burn-coal1597
lithanthrax1612
stony coal1617
Welsh coala1618
land-coala1661
foot coal1665
peacock coal1686
rough coal1686
white coal1686
heathen-coalc1697
coal-stone1708
round1708
stone-coal1708
bench-coal1712
slipper coal1712
black coal1713
culm1742
rock coal1750
board coal1761
Bovey coal1761
house coal1784
mineral coal1785
splint1789
splint coal1789
jet coal1794
anthracite1797
wood-coal1799
blind-coal1802
black diamond1803
silk-coal1803
glance-coal1805
lignite1808
Welsh stone-coal1808
soft1811
spout coals1821
spouter1821
Wallsend1821
brown coal1833
paper coal1833
steam-coal1850
peat-coal1851
cherry-coal1853
household1854
sinter coal1854
oil coal1856
raker1857
Kilkenny coal1861
Pottery coal1867
silkstone1867
block coal1871
admiralty1877
rattlejack1877
bunker1883
fusain1883
smitham1883
bunker coal1885
triping1886
trolley coal1890
kibble1891
sea-borne1892
jet1893
steam1897
sack coal1898
Welsh1898
navigation coal1900
Coalite1906
clarain1919
durain1919
vitrain1919
single1921
kolm1930
hards1956
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Feb. 5/1 The number of men on strike this morning is 7,500, many of the ‘seaborne’ men having left work since yesterday morning.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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