Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Sea wrack used as fertilizer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Flotsam; articles cast up by the sea.
- n. A kind of kelp; sea girdles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See ware, and sea girdles.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Seaweed; especially, the larger, coarser kinds of algæ that are thrown up by the sea and used as manure, etc.
Etymologies
Possibly Old English sǣwār : sǣ, sea + wār, seaweed; see wei- in Indo-European roots.
(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)sea + -ware (Wiktionary)
Examples
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At first the air was redolent of clover, and then -- as I drew near the shore -- of seaware.
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'Yes, there's a plenty of shells and seaware for manure, as you observe; and if one inclined to build a new house, which might indeed be necessary, there's a great deal of good hewn stone about this old dungeon, for the devil here --'
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‘Yes, there’s a plenty of shells and seaware for manure, as you observe; and if one inclined to build a new house, which might indeed be necessary, there’s a great deal of good hewn stone about this old dungeon, for the devil here —’
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