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- noun Plural form of
sea-ear .
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Examples
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The top was open, and sea-ears were fastened to the bottom as bait.
The Cannibal Islands Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas 1859
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Of other shell-fish there are ten or twelve sorts, such as periwinkles, wilks, limpets, and some very beautiful sea-ears, also another sort which stick to the weeds; with some other things, as sea-eggs, star-fish, &c. several of which are peculiar to the place.
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When they dare not venture to sea, or perhaps from choice, they supply the place of other fish with muscles and sea-ears; great quantities of the shells of which lie in heaps near their houses.
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There is abundance of large muscles about the rocks, many sea-ears, and we often saw shells of pretty large plain _chamæ_.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 Robert Kerr 1784
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It is curious that some of the most common fossil shells are not now known in their recent state, as the cornua ammonis; and on the contrary, many shells which are very plentiful in their recent state, as limpets, sea-ears, volutes, cowries, are very rarely found fossil.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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"The carving upon the stern and head ornaments of the inferior boats, which seemed to be intended wholly for fishing, consists of the figure of a man, with the face as ugly as can be conceived, and a monstrous tongue thrust out of the mouth, with the white shells of sea-ears stuck in for eyes.
Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships R. [Illustrator] Richardson 1859
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