Fr'over the short sea
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- Short Sea: a nautical synonym for the Irish Sea. [Note: so wrote Roland McHugh in the first edition of his Annotations to Finnegans Wake; but the annotation does not appear in the second or third edition. Was it an error?]
- Seoirse: (Irish) George → St George's Channel, the southern part of the Irish Sea, which Tristram crosses on his return to Cornwall
- short sea: a nautical term for a sea with close waves