Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place in which to careen a ship.
- noun The cost of careening.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Expense of careening ships.
- noun A place for careening.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical a
beach with a steep, sandyshoreline on which aship may becareened - noun nautical the
expense of careening a ship
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Examples
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Confirmation for the careenage at San Juan de Luz also appears in Spanish records; but chronology is again a problem.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Confirmation for the careenage at San Juan de Luz also appears in Spanish records; but chronology is again a problem.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The schooner was hauled up to the head of the careenage, and on examination it appeared that every part of the vessel had been so strained by carrying sail, and so much damage had been done to her planks and timbers by worms, that she was good for nothing.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper
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We pulled around the principal fort, which is situated on a point of land, and entered a beautiful land - locked harbor, or careenage, where a number of vessels were lying at the wharves.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper
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I convinced Strictland of the importance of the strictest economy in our expenditures; succeeded in persuading a good-natured Swede, who kept a small shop near the careenage, to allow my chest to remain with him a few days, and we undertook to "rough it" as well as we could.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper
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He did not hurry to leave his careenage, though he must have known that each day he stayed there lessened his chance of booty.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
chained_bear commented on the word careenage
OED:
a. The careening of a ship; ellipt. the expense of this. b. A careening-place (cf. anchorage).
In sense b the Fr. carénage is much used, esp. in W. Indies, and parts of N. America.
1794 SIR J. JERVIS in Naval. Chron. X. 462 The Asia and Zebra were appointed..to enter the careenage. 1829 Lond. Encycl. V. 161 Careenage is the place where the operation is performed, and also the money given for careening. 1841 J. W. ORDERSON Creoleana v. 45 The whole line of the carenage being..one continuous sloping bank of slime.
attrib. 1877 KINGLAKE Crimea V. ii. 372 He crossed the Careenage Ravine.
November 20, 2008