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Ship canal   /ʃɪp kənˈæl/   Listen
Ship canal

noun
1.
A canal large enough for seagoing vessels.  Synonym: shipway.





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... and practically seized control of the Nicaragua route. A crisis followed, and in 1850 we made with Great Britain the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, by which each party was pledged never to obtain "exclusive control over the said ship canal." When (in 1900) we practically decided to build by the Nicaragua route, and felt we must have exclusive control, it became necessary to abrogate this part of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. The Hay-Pauncefote treaty was therefore made, by which Great Britain gave up all claim ...
— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
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... him at Winnipeg shortly after Clifford Sifton crowded the gate there with people going in that they might choke it again with wheat coming out; and while people went in and wheat came out through this spout of the great prairie hopper, Dafoe dug himself a little ship canal which as it grew bigger sluiced the political rivers of the West into his sanctum before he lifted the lock and let them on down to the sea at Ottawa. The West as he saw it was a place of coming mighty changes. His own party was pushing the transformations. ...
— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino
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Words linked to "Ship canal" :   Suez Canal, canal, Panama Canal, Gota Canal


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