seagirt

English

Etymology

sea +‎ girt

Adjective

seagirt (not comparable)

(rare, poetic) Engirdled by the sea, as an island.
- 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 408:
  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.

Anagrams

Gaiters, Staiger, agister, aigrets, gaiters, stagier, strigae, tirages, triages

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