Meaning of sail-road | Babel Free

Definitions

The ocean; the open sea.

literary, rare

Examples

“There were writhing sea-dragosn and monsters slouching on slopes by the cliff, serpents and wild things such as those that often surface at dawn to roam the sail-road and doom the voyage.”

“Never before had she sailed into the open sea, and out of sight of land; never had she taken the sail road.”

“[N]or for all their skill might those dwellers in the earth see the sail-road, how this greatest of tents was tied, when he honoured with glory that people loyal to their Lord.”

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