Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A quay or dock; a wharf.

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Examples

  • The space cut into the quay had all the characteristics of an artificial harbor known as a cothon.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • The space cut into the quay had all the characteristics of an artificial harbor known as a cothon.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Billingsgate, now a cothon, or artificial port, for the reception of ships.

    Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 2003

  • The sketch pad plopped onto the table, and Nina tapped the drawing of the cothon.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • She discovered several slipways, each big enough to accommodate ships more than fifty feet long, and a true piscina, which confirmed her theory about the cothon.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • She discovered several slipways, each big enough to accommodate ships more than fifty feet long, and a true piscina, which confirmed her theory about the cothon.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • The sketch pad plopped onto the table, and Nina tapped the drawing of the cothon.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Had the water miraculously receded, she could have strolled blindfolded on the old quay and not bumped into a wall or fallen into a piscina or cothon.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Had the water miraculously receded, she could have strolled blindfolded on the old quay and not bumped into a wall or fallen into a piscina or cothon.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • With Austin a step behind, she walked along the rocky shoreline describing the unseen tunnel and cothon.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

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