sea light

plural sea lights

1. Alternative form of sea-light.
   1. countableuncountableLight from the sea.

      Mornings the sea light moves like broadloom, weaving the same endless pattern on the clear bottom sand.

      2011, Susan Neiman, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists, →ISBN, page 299

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      I would lie in bed listening to the tugs hooting; I would wake up to find my painter's great north windows awash with foggy sea light.

      1996, Alfred Kazin, New York Jew, →ISBN, page 209

      A large square porthole let in the sea light, but this didn't make much difference: The moment Wilson stepped through the hatchway with Ackerman's daily mound of food in hand, he recognized it immediately—the plastic closeness, the pale, powdery smell of offices.

      2008, Robert Girardi, The Pirate's Daughter, →ISBN

   2. countableuncountableA light on the seacoast to warn or guide boats.

      As there is a dangerous sand bar at the mouth of the harbor, these lights serve as useful guides, and also as sea lights. (1809.)

      1845, Robert Mills, The American Light-house Guide

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      We shall here simply enumerate all the public or sea lights upon the coast of England and Wales, without distinguishing those which belong to the Trinity Board, or are specially under its management, as we conceive that Board, in a general way, to take cognizance, more or less, in the proper and regular exhibition of the lights at all the lighthouses upon the English coast.

      1819, Sir David Brewster, Second American edition of the new Edinburgh encyclopædia, page 54

      Ruth stares out of her office window, across the courtyard towards the artificial lake, and thinks about the impending trip to the sea light.

      2012, Elly Griffiths, The House at Sea's End, →ISBN, page 223