sea-drift

You will say gulls and dog-fish, etc., would eat up the carcase, and so they would 999 times out of a thousand, but one might escape: I have seen dead land-birds in sea-drift.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin

Every man, woman, and child in that chapel amid gray miles of rock and sea-drift, has heard over and over of the unrepentant deathbed of Mauryeen Holion.

From An Isle in the Water by Katharine Tynan

Poseidon, rider of the wild sea-drift, Tamed them, men say, and gave them for his gift To Peleus.—None the less, since I have stirred Hopes, I will baulk them not.

From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes

She turned toward the south and walked along the edge of the sea-drift.

From Where the Sun Swings North by Barrett Willoughby

Shall it dash 'neath cliffs untrodden, Rocks where nought but sea-drift strays?

From In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses by Henry Lawson