sea chickweed

Bot.: Arenaria peploides . sea-coal, 8. An old name for coal. It was given because that mineral was generally brought by sea, whereas charcoal came by land to the consumer. "Coal in particular was never seen except in the districts where it was produced, or in the districts to which it could be carried by sea, and was indeed always known in the south of England by the name of sea - coal ." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. iii. sea-coast, subst. The coast of the sea; the land adjacent to the sea.