sail-road

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English

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"There were writhing sea-dragosn and monsters slouching on slopes by the cliff, serpents and wild things such as those that often surface at dawn to roam the sail-road and doom the voyage."
"Never before had she sailed into the open sea, and out of sight of land; never had she taken the sail road."
"[N]or for all their skill might those dwellers in the earth see the sail-road, how this greatest of tents was tied, when he honoured with glory that people loyal to their Lord."

Calque of Old English seglrād, a kenning formed from segl (“sail”) + rād (“road”).

the sail-road (canonical)

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