sea morse

noun

The walrus.

Meanings

noun
  1. obsoleteThe walrus.

    His snout lifted barked at the wavenoise, herds of seamorse.

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 3: Proteus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 46
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    A Sea Morce-head, it is a fish of Lap-land, and of Norway, also of Green-land; This fish do's sleep hanging on the Rocks by the great teeth of the upper jaw, and so is taken in those parts.

    1665, Robert Hubert, A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities, page 29

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