sea-dragon

plural sea-dragons

1. alternativeAlternative form of sea dragon.

   In the Gentleman's Magazine for the year 1749, we have an account of a ſea-dragon which was ſaid to be taken between Orford and Southwould, on the coaſt of Suffolk[.]

   1810, Charles Gould, Encyclopædia Britannica, volume XIX, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., page 68, column 2

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   I may note that there is a bay, not far from this spot, among the Chusan islands, which has long been credited with being the abode of a great sea-dragon, and in passing over which junks take certain superstitious precautions.

   1886, Charles Gould, Mythical Monsters, London: W.H. Allen and Co., page 305

   There were writhing sea-dragons 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.

   1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 47

   Rāb(ṇ) gave command to his son, Narātǎk, who, with sea-dragons yoked to his chariot and with bow and arrow in hand, marshalled his officers and forces in urgent haste.

   2013, Judith M. Jacob, The Cambodian Version of the Ramayana, London: Routledge, page 10