seamonster

See also: sea monster and sea-monster

English

Noun

seamonster (plural seamonsters)

1. Alternative form of sea monster.
   • 1913, A. Patrick, Jr., Jimmy: A Play in One Act, New York, N.Y., London: Samuel French, page 7:

     The past is like a seamonster; it stretches out it’s callous arms and drags a man down—down.

   • 1964, Charles McKew Parr, Jan van Linschoten: The Dutch Marco Polo, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, →LCCN, page 137:

     The cluster of menacing avengers were hardly able to hold their balance as the huge barrel of a nao wallowed and plunged in the gigantic thundering combers like a seamonster in its last dreadful agonies.

   • 1986, Paul Theroux, O-Zone, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 127:

     The Skell was dripping on the cold stones of the terrace, bedraggled like a seamonster – Fisher had the impression of air escaping from the Skell’s body.

   • 1997, James Cameron, Titanic: James Cameron’s Illustrated Screenplay, New York, N.Y.: HarperPerennial, published 1998, →ISBN, page 139:

     It is the black FRENCH BULLDOG, swimming right at her like a seamonster in the darkness, its coal eyes bugging.

Anagrams

• mesosterna, nasometers, sarmentose