单词 | seege |
释义 | seegen. Obsolete exc. dialect. The rush of the waves upon the shore; surf. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > foam or surf > [noun] > surf surf1606 seegea1609 snuffle1630 surf1633 a1609 F. Vere Commentaries (1657) 120 The seege of the sea [was] such, that no shipping could lie there unbroken. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xii. 26 All these Ilands are perilous to land in, for the seege caused by the Ocean sea. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xiv. 33 My Boates could not discover any landing place,..for that the sedge was exceeding great and dangerous. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xli. 97 Certaine of my people standing to defend the Boates with their Oares, for that there went a bad sege, were forced to lay downe their Musketts. 1625 G. Markham Farewell to Husb. (ed. 2) 71 Your Hemp-weede, or any other weede which groweth neere the seydge of the Sea. 1823 T. Bond Topogr. & Hist. Sketches E. & W. Looe 148 The waves, as they come into the river, occasion the water to rush up the street with great violence... This run of the water is locally called The Seech—they say, the Seech is coming, or the Seech is going back. 1880 T. Q. Couch E. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 103 Sych, the edge or foaming border of a wave as it runs up a harbour or on the land. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1609 |
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