Mar
Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary
MAAR, sb. Sh.I. Also written mar-. [mār.] 1. The ocean; the sea-bottom. Spence Flk-Lore (1899) 120; ‘To lay de mar,’ to lay the longlines on the sea-bottom, Jakobsen Norsk in Sh. (1897) 93; Maar, one of the old haaf-terms for the ocean, now only occurs in comps., JAKOBSEN Dial. (1897) 24. 2. Comp. Mar-bank, an abrupt slope of the sea-bottom. Jakobsen Dial. (1897) 24. [1. ON. marr, the sea. 2. ON. mar-bakki, the border between shoal and deep water along the coast (Vigfusson).]
Source : Admiral W H Smyth - The Sailor's Wordbook
