Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Seaweed; sea-wrack, used as manure on the coasts of Cornwall and of Scotland, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
oarweed .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
oarweed .
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Examples
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A hound kept beside her, shivering and now and then lowering his muzzle to sniff the oreweed, as if the brine of it puzzled him: a beast in shape somewhat like our grey-hounds, but longer and taller, and coated like a wolf.
Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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