sea-rim

English

Etymology

sea +‎ rim

Noun

sea-rim (plural sea-rims)

  1. The horizon of an ocean or sea.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 32:
      It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
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