Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sea wrack used as fertilizer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Seaweed; especially, the larger, coarser kinds of algæ that are thrown up by the sea and used as manure, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See
ware , andsea girdles .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic
Flotsam ; articles cast up by the sea. - noun A kind of
kelp ;sea girdles .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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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'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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