sealore

From sea +‎ lore.

sealore (uncountable)

1. Knowledge, teaching, science, or study of the sea.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 175:

     When they reappeared presently over the sand-ridge he was assisting to carry a very dead fowl, to which Cora had attached a length of string, with the other end looped about her wrist. Bradly joined her on the beach, interested in a piece of sea-lore.

   • 1998, Malcolm Archibald, Sixpence for the Wind: A Knot of Nautical Folklore - Page 128:

     But persistent sealore says that there was so much attention paid to oppression that good seamanship suffered.

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