English Dictionary

sea puss

名詞

A strong seaward current; a riptide or undertow, especially as results when a sandbar formed by waves suddenly gives way, and which is dangerous to swimmers.

日本語の意味

強い海流。特に、波によって形成された砂州が急に崩れた際に発生し、泳者にとって危険な引き潮（海底からの反作用的な流れ）を指す。

The captain warned us to avoid the sea puss near the cliff after the storm.

船長は嵐の後、崖の近くにある沖へ向かう強い潮流を避けるよう私たちに警告した。

意味（1）

A strong seaward current; a riptide or undertow, especially as results when a sandbar formed by waves suddenly gives way, and which is dangerous to swimmers.

Sometimes owing to a peculiar formation of the coast, the waves are brought together in an angle, indenting the shore in such a way that this return flow, or undertow, runs out to sea in a continuous stream, which is called a sea-puss. The sea-puss is of variable width—from twenty or thirty feet to perhaps fifty or a hundred—and its location can generally be recognized by the peculiar roughness of the sea, […] as well as by the fact that the beach opposite to it is channeled by the action of the water. […] Thus is happens that there may exist a strong sea-puss at a certain point one day; and next day, or later in the same day, owing to a change in the tide, the veering of the wind, or the shifting of some sandbar, it may have entirely disappeared.

意味（2）

The (flowing) channel which results when a cut is made (often deliberately by humans) in a barrier beach which separates a bay from an ocean, so as to control the water level in the bay (which affects water mills) and its salinity (which affects shellfish).

sea pusses （ plural ）