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sea-locked

sea-locked is the alternative form of sealocked.

Meaning of sealocked

Adjective

sealocked (not comparable)

  1. Of a geographical region: accessible only through a body of seawater, and having no access by land.
    • [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...1857 October, R. A. V., “Art History”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume LVI, number CCCXXXIV, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, West Strand, →OCLC, page 500, column 1

Questions about sea-locked

What is sea-locked the alternative form of?
Sea-locked is the alternative form of sealocked.

Words near sea-locked in the dictionary

  1. sea-light
  2. sea-lights
  3. sea-lilies
  4. sea-lily
  5. sea-lion
  6. sea-locked
  7. sea-locust
  8. sea-locusts
  9. sea-luce
  10. sea-luces
  11. sea-lungs

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