sea-strand Obs. exc. arch.
= sea-shore.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. (Thorpe) I. 68/29 Beraþ..þa stanas to sæ-strande. c 1205 Lay. 9235 At Port-chæstre heo comen alond & stepen up a sæ strond [c 1275 þat see strond]. c 1303 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 188 Betere hem were at home in huere londe, Then for te seche Flemmysshe by the see stronde. 14.. Beues 515 (MS. C), They arevyd at þe see stronde. 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VI (1550) 28 He..came to the sea stronde at Douer. 1849 J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante's Inf. xxx. 361 Hecuba..on the sea-strand forlorn. 1865 Swinburne Chastelard i. ii. 31 Between the sea-strand and the sea. 1882 Child Ballads I. 112/2 They come to a sea-strand or other water. |