Sail-road
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The ocean; the open sea. literary, rare
"There were writhing sea-dragosn and monsters slouching on slopes by the cliff, serpents and wild things such as those that often surface at dawn to roam the sail-road and doom the voyage."
Example
More examples"There were writhing sea-dragosn and monsters slouching on slopes by the cliff, serpents and wild things such as those that often surface at dawn to roam the sail-road and doom the voyage."
Etymology
Calque of Old English seglrād, a kenning formed from segl (“sail”) + rād (“road”).
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