▪ I. seege Obs. exc. dial.
Also 7 sedge, sege, seydge, 9 dial. seech, sych.
[Of obscure origin: perh. identical with the OE. sęcg sea (only in the early glossaries, rendering salum and mare, and as the second element in gársęcg ocean).]
The rush of the waves upon the shore; surf.
| a 1609 Sir F. Vere Comm. (1657) 120 The seege of the sea [was] such, that no shipping could lie there unbroken. 1622 R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea xii. 26 All these Ilands are perilous to land in, for the seege caused by the Ocean sea. Ibid. xiv. 33 My Boates could not discover any landing place,..for that the sedge was exceedingly great and dangerous. Ibid. xli. 97 Certaine of my people standing to defend the Boates with their Oares, for that there went a bad sege, were forced to lay downe their Musketts. 1625 Markham Farew. Husb. (ed. 2) 71 Your Hemp-weede, or any other weede which groweth neere the seydge of the Sea. 1823 Bond E. & W. Looe 148 The waves, as they come into the river, occasion the water to rush up the street with great violence... This run of the water is locally called The Seech—they say, the Seech is coming, or the Seech is going back. 1880 Couch E. Cornw. Gloss., Sych, the edge or foaming border of a wave as it runs up a harbour or on the land. |
▪ II. seege
obs. f. siege; var. segge, man.