Meaning of sea-locked | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“[John] Evelyn was astonished at the immense number⟳ of pictures he saw⟳ in the Dutch fairs. He attributes the briskness of the trade⟳ in paintings to the necessary limitations of the country. The farmer or the citizen of sea-locked Holland, unable to lay⟳ out his gains on tracts of land⟳, found a medium for speculation or investment in these works of art.”

“She was surprised to see⟳ what rapid advance the waves had made, but there was still a narrow belt of dry sand; she stepped along it, expecting to find⟳ broad open⟳ coast beyond; she found herself, however, only in another cove, smaller than the one she had first entered, and this cove was already completely sea-locked.”

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