oceanet

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oceanet (plural oceanets)

  1. (poetic, obsolete) A small ocean.
    • 1771, Robert Sanders, The Complete English Traveller, page 501:
      [] three minutes space / To highest mark this oceanet doth raise; / And in less time retire the ebbing waves, / To the dark windings of the frigid caves.