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Definition of Sea cole

1. Noun. Perennial of coastal sands and shingles of northern Europe and Baltic and Black Seas having racemes of small white flowers and large fleshy blue-green leaves often used as potherbs.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Cole

Literary usage of Sea cole

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

1. Walks in the Black Country and Its Green Border-land by Elihu Burritt (1868)
"of Iron with Pit-cole and Sea-cole for the Preservation of Wood and Timber of Great Brittain so greatly then consumed by Ironworks ; This Invention was by ..."

2. The Chemistry of Iron & Steel Making: And of Their Practical Uses by William Mattieu Williams (1890)
"... and all men now desisting from the inventions of making iron with pit-cole and sea-cole, the author (Dudley), Anno 1660, being sixty-one years of age, ..."

3. The Chemistry of Iron & Steel Making: And of Their Practical Uses by William Mattieu Williams (1890)
"... and all men now desisting from the inventions of making iron with pit-cole and sea-cole, the author (Dudley), Anno 1660, being sixty-one years of age, ..."

4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"They have also a bituminous substance like milke, strained out of the barke of a tree, 1579- Hard Timber and Reeds. Sea-cole. Rhubarb. China, Muske. ..."

5. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"For fire they use Wood, Coles, Reeds, Straw, and a bituminous substance called Mui (a kinde of Mine-cole or Sea-cole) which is most and best in the North, ..."

6. A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement & Present State of the by John Holland, Robert Hunt (1853)
"... Esq., a servant of Queen Ann's, undertook (by pattent) to perform the invention of making of iron with pit-cole and sea-cole; hut he being as confident ..."

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