Meanings
- not comparablepoeticrareEngirdled by the sea, as an island.
Under the sea-girt cliffs the shining ship was readied, laden with coats of mail, swords, and gleaming war harness.
1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 231 more example
See Borneo's sea-girt shore where ever flow / the perfumed liquor's thick and curded gouts, / the tears of forest-trees men "Camphor" clepe, / wherefore that Island crop of Fame shall reap.
1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 408
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivesurrounded or enclosed by the sea
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