Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The great river which was formerly supposed to surround the inhabited world. Also called
ocean-stream .
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Examples
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Kuro Siwo, or placid ocean-river from Japan; odoriferous, as though spice-laden from the flowery isles of the Yellow Sea.
The Log School-House on the Columbia Hezekiah Butterworth 1872
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Atuona were all cowled in cloud, and the ocean-river of the trades streamed without pause.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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One neither departs from nor approaches the Cuban shore without crossing that remarkable ocean-river to which we have so often referred in these pages, -- the Gulf Stream, -- with banks and bottom of cold water, while its body and surface are warm.
Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Maturin Murray Ballou 1857
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In Homer's the Iliad, Achilles 'shield is likened to the Earth, which is surrounded by an ocean-river, the source of all water and of the gods.
Jihad Watch 2009
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