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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A canal wide and deep enough to serve ships. Also called shipway.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A canal through which vessels of large size can pass; a canal for sea-going vessels.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a canal suitable for the passage of seagoing vessels.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a canal large enough for seagoing vessels

Examples

  • “And we’ve just about finished digging a new ship canal from the sea to Arelate, to bypass the swamps and mud flats and sandbars of the natural waterway.”

    The First Man in Rome

  • “Next year they’re going to dig a ship canal all the way from the sea to the Rhodanus at Arelate. ”

    The First Man in Rome

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