sail-road

Noun

the sail-road

1. (literary, rare, kenning) The ocean; the open sea.
   • 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.1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 47
   • Never before had she sailed into the open sea, and out of sight of land; never had she taken the sail road.2013, Stephen Baxter, Alternate Histories, London: Gollanz