sea legs
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.52 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "to get/find one's sea legs"
- "Jasper would find his sea-legs in a fortnight, and a twelvemonth's v'y'ge would make him a man."
- "[…] and hear poor Mr Tapley, in his wandering fancy, playing at skittles in the Dragon, making love-remonstrances to Mrs Lupin, getting his sea-legs on board the Screw, travelling with old Tom Pinch on English roads, and burning stumps of trees in Eden, all at once."
- "Our passengers hailed from fifteen states; only a few of them had ever been to sea before; manifestly it would not do to pit them against a full-blown tempest until they had got their sea-legs on."
- "Had a refreshing walk up and down the quarter-deck, though I have hardly found my sea-legs yet."
- "It was fortunate for the passengers that most of them had at this period of the voyage got their sea legs; otherwise walking on the slippery deck, that seemed to heave as the rolling of the vessel threw its slopes up or down, would have been impossible."
Usage
- American usage