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sealocked en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈsiːlɒkt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈsiˌlɑkt/ (General-American)
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Etymology

From sea + locked, probably modelled after landlocked.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of a geographical region: accessible only through a body of seawater, and having no access by land.
   • In the great sealocked cave that broke the flank of Dunmore Head lived the Cyclops, and in my uncle's version of the tale, when Ulysses escaped from his terrible captivity he brought Séamus and Máire and Biddín (our housekeeper's daughter) with him, clinging to the undersides of the sheep; we did not as yet have Barbara. 2003, Máire Cruise O'Brien, “A Celebration of the Irish Language”, in The Same Age as the State: The Autobiography of Máire Cruise O’Brien, Dublin: O'Brien Press, →ISBN, part I (Alternative Lifestyle):
   • And is it not at all to be wondered at that when this gold leaves the government vaults, it seldom returns, for there are 40,000,000 Johnny Bulls that must have their teeth filled and they have no mines on their little sealocked island from which to extract the necessary filling. 1906, Northwestern Dental Journal, volume 4, Chicago, Ill.: Alumni Association, Northwestern University Dental School, →OCLC, page 81:
   • [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. 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:
   • 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. 1880, L. T. Meade [pseudonym; Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith], “By the Sea”, in Andrew Harvey’s Wife, London: W[illia]m Isbister, Limited, 56, Ludgate Hill, →OCLC, page 220:

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landlocked