sea-faren.
1.
a. Food obtained from the sea.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun]
sea-fare1597
seafood1836
1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. xix. sig. Bbv Her sea-fare now is land-fare of content... The fishes are her food, and they are sent, Vnto drie land.
b. Fare or food on board ship.
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the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > seafaring food
hardtack1830
sea-fare1850
1850 B. Taylor Eldorado vi The fresh milk, butter, and excellent beef of the country, were real luxuries after our sea-fare.
2. Travel by sea, a sea-voyage. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > a voyage
farec1000
voyagec1310
ship-roada1400
shipping1483
race1513
navigationa1527
sailing1535
sea-fare1601
sea-voyage1612
saila1616
perfretation1656
watery1697
1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 20 These men..linked and bound themselues together in Companie for the exercise of Merchandise and sea-fare, trading in Cloth, Kersies [etc.].
1620 G. Markham Farewell to Husb. (1625) 137 These [kinds of Pulse] in cases of Sea-fare and War-fare ought principally to be eschewed & shunned.
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