▪ I. ˈsea-holm1 rare—0.
[holm1.]
‘A small uninhabited island’ (J.); hence in later Dicts.
▪ II. ˈsea-holm2
[holm2.]
= sea-holly.
| c 1550 Lloyd Treas. Health (c 1560) N v b, The herbe and rote of seaholme sodden and dronke with wyne. 1612 Drayton Poly-olb. i. 125 The Seaholme heere, that spreadeth all our shore,..Whose roote th' Eringo is. 1728 Bradley Dict. Bot. II, Sea-Holm, or Hulver, in Latin, Aquifolium. 1850 Miss Pratt Comm. Things of Sea-side i. 18 [Eryngium maritimum] is known on the several parts of our coast by a variety of names, as the sea hulver, sea holly, and sea holme. |
| attrib. 1602 Carew Cornwall i. 19 The Seaholme roote. |