Definition of "archipelago" noun plural archipelagos or archipelagoes
verb third-person singular simple present archipelagos , present participle archipelagoing , simple past and past participle archipelagoed
(transitive, rare) To scatter or be scattered so as to resemble a group of islands . quotations
Quotations As the seas level , as the seas / Swept into ripples by the breeze , / And archipelagoed by trees , / Majestic spreading oaks , that rise / Like island walls against the skies .
1912, Samuel John Alexander, “The Regions Which Are Holy Land”, in The Inverted Torch, and Other Poems, San Francisco, C.A.: A. M. Robertson, page 183
Crevasse ! The word which describes the frightful chasm into which nature 's mighty stresses break glaciers , the people of the Lower Mississippi applied to the river when its destruction burst upon the land . It meant a rush of water which might be fifteen feet high and a hundred feet wide the first hour , four hundred the next , and half a mile the next day ; and which hurled itself upon towns and plantations , to gouge vast cavities and carry destruction fifty miles a day ; the current sweeping away everything in its immediate path , but losing its violence farther away in the placidity of a vast sea archipelagoed by tree tops and house roofs and beaconed by factory chimneys .
1944, Thomas Ewing Dabney, One Hundred Great Years: The Story of the Times-Picayune From Its Founding to 1940, Baton Rouge, L.A.: Louisiana State University Press, page 432