morse

name

1. A surname transferred from the given name, variant of Morris, from the given name Maurice.
2. A town in Saskatchewan, Canada, named after inventor Samuel Morse.
3. A rural municipality in southern Saskatchewan, which includes the town; in full, the Rural Municipality of Morse No. 165.
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noun

Etymology: Uncertain, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Samic *moršë. Compare Russian морж (morž, “walrus”), Sami morša, Finnish mursu (all attested later), and possibly the second element of translingual Rosmarus.

1. Synonym of walrus.

   “The morse is said to roar or bellow loudly, but the animal we slew made no outcry, [...]”

   “Then we passed through a great deale of small ice, and sawe, upon some peices, two morses, and upon some, one; and also diuers seales, layeing upon peices of ice.”

verb

1. To transmit by Morse code.

   “It was Gibson who was right. Code 78A was Morsed back to Grantham – 'bomb despatched and hit wall but no breach observed'. No doubt the wording of Operation Chastise's operation order now started to hit home […]”