sea-wing
1. poet. nonce-use. Means of ‘flight’ by sea.
| 1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. x. 20 The Noble ruine of her Magicke, Anthony, Claps on his Sea-wing, and (like a doting Mallard) Leauing the Fight in heighth, flyes after her. |
2. A wing-shell.
| 1681 Grew Musæum i. §vi. ii. 141 The Sea-Wing. Pinna. Each Valve is very like in shape to the Wing of a large Fowl, from whence I name it. 1813 Bingley Anim. Biog. (ed. 4) III. 459 The sea-wing. |