Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sea-purse , 2.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore
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Examples
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Shortly afterward we heard the mewing of a sea-puss, evidently chasing the robin.
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This is the work of the sea-puss -- the revolving maniac born of close-wed wind and tide;
Tides of Barnegat Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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If these be as fine as mud, so that they may float in the water, they are readily borne away by the currents which are always created along a storm-swept shore, particularly by the undertow or bottom outcurrent -- the "sea-puss," as it is sometimes called -- that sweeps along the bottom from every shore, against which the waves form a surf.
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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The claw of the sea-puss gets us all in the end, as James Thurber said.
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