Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sea route.
- noun An inland waterway for ocean shipping.
- noun The headway of a ship.
- noun A rough sea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, progress made by a vessel through the waves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical a
lane orroute atsea that isregularly used byships ; asea lane ortrade route - noun nautical an
inland waterway used byseagoing shipping - noun nautical the
headway of avessel
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a lane at sea that is a regularly used route for vessels
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Examples
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Terry Johnson, administrator of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp., wants to see the seaway, which is too small for most oceangoing vessels now, rehabilitated and its infrastructure improved to accommodate container ships from Europe and Asia.
Freep.com - RSS 2009
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"Not an international strait, but a shipping route, something like the St. Lawrence seaway, which is carefully managed with sufficient infrastructure to ensure that ships can pass safely through to everyone's economic interest and at the same time have security threats dealt with and deterred."
Embassy 2009
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I intend, however, to stick to my suggested title of Cross-roads, for it, I think; most adequately describes the point at which we stand at the end of the old road of Empire authority and at the moment of decision as to whether we shall take the Russian Communist road along which so much of Europe and Asia have already travelled, or the Atlantic road which we may call the seaway, the free way, the road of civilisation for civilisation, whatever you may think in Toronto has always risen to its greatest peaks among maritime peoples.
Cross-Roads 1949
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3 In any kind of seaway, there is much less wind in the trough than at the crests.
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They had met on the banks of the St. Lawrence River and watched together as the construction of the seaway changed the course of the river and swallowed towns, homes, lives.
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They had met on the banks of the St. Lawrence River and watched together as the construction of the seaway changed the course of the river and swallowed towns, homes, lives.
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They had met on the banks of the St. Lawrence River and watched together as the construction of the seaway changed the course of the river and swallowed towns, homes, lives.
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At a very remote period he must also have recognized that force moves along the line of least resistance, and in virtue thereof, placed upon his craft rude keels which enabled him to beat to windward in a seaway.
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The vessel was a wonder in a seaway; when we slowed down she hardly took a drop on board, but I have never sailed in anything that had a motion like she had.
Movie Night 2010
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He is in the fishing boat that over-fishes the coastal seaway.
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