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Definition of "sea-beaten" []

  • Same as sea-beat.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "sea-beaten" in a sentence
  • "He quotes Loren Eiseley, the great writer-naturalist: "The sea-beaten coast, the fierce freedom of its hunting hawks, possessed and spoke through him" (43)."
  • "He spake, and mounted the ship first of all; and so the rest of the chiefs followed, and, sitting in order, seized the oars; and Argus loosed for them the hawsers from under the sea-beaten rock."
  • "Who can guess how much firmness the sea-beaten rock has taught the fisherman? how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky, over whose unspotted deeps the winds forevermore drive flocks of stormy clouds, and leave no wrinkle or stain? how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?"
Words like "sea-beaten"
fern-covered
good-size
house-sized
ice-coated
ice-slicked
irregularly-shaped
mud-splattered
out-cropping
palm-fringed
pink-gray
plutonian
powder-fine
rockbound
water-smoothed
wave-washed