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Definition of Sea-purse

1. Noun. The seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea-purse

Literary usage of Sea-purse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Also called sea-purse and sea-barrow. These cast's are frequently found on the sea-shore, and are called ..."

2. The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including by William Henry Smyth (1867)
"sea-purse. See MERMAID'S PURSE. SEA-QUADRANT. The old name of Jacob's cross-staff. SEA-QUAKE. The tremulous motion and shock of an earthquake felt through ..."

3. Paragraph-writing: A Rhetoric for Colleges by Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny (1909)
"The other and greater danger of bathing is the largely unknown "sea-puss," or, as it is more properly termed, the " sea-purse." This condition of affairs ..."

4. Paragraph-writing: A Rhetoric for Colleges by Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny (1909)
"The other and greater danger of bathing is the largely unknown "sea-puss," or, as it is more properly termed, the " sea-purse." This condition of affairs ..."

5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"... or sea-purse; while another species with a narrow, long, branching form, but with fibres similarly entangled and woven, has been found on the coasts of ..."

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