† sea-borderer Obs. rare.
One who inhabits the land adjacent to the sea.
| a 1593 Marlowe Hero & Leander i. 3 On Hellespont..In view and opposit two citties stood, Seaborderers [earliest eds. (1598–1613) Seaborders], disioin'd by Neptunes might: The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight. 1599 Nashe Lenten Stuffe 46 Their heauenly hoods..decreede, that for they were either of them seaborderers and drowned in the sea, stil to the sea they must belong. 1670 Cotton Espernon iii. ix. 442 A barbarous and inhumane people (as generally Sea-borderers are). |