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English
Etymology
From whale + road, after Old English hranrād.
Noun
whale-road (plural whale-roads)
- (obsolete, poetic) The sea, the ocean.
1907, John Gibb, “Beowulf”, in The Children's Hour, volume 4, page 3:[…] and his name was called Scyld. He grew to man's estate, and became a mighty king, and subdued the peoples under him. All the neighboring peoples across the whale roads obeyed Scyld.
1999, Seamus Heaney, transl., Beowulf:In the end each clan on the outlying coasts / beyond the whale-road had to yield to him / and begin to pay tribute. That was one good king.