local. Obs. Also 7 oade. [Error for woar, oare, ORE5, by confusion with prec.] Woad of the sea: seaweed.
1603. G. Owen, Pembrokeshire (1892), 55. Havinge lyme, sand, woade of the sea and divers other principall helpes to better the soile, where neede is. Ibid., 59. Oade of the sea. Ibid., 75. The sea ore, or woad as some call yt, which is verye weedes growinge vnder water in the sea.
