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  • adjective nautical Designed and equipped to be capable of sailing on an ocean.

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Examples

  • The seats are narrow and too flat and the steering wheel roughly the size of that found on an ocean-going yacht (and unadjustable).

    Archive 2009-07-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • He has a 151-foot ocean-going yacht, the Highlander, with a helicopter deck (even though it's been temporarily mothballed in deference to the dismal economy) and I don't.

    A Beastly Pursuit, in Rhyme Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010

  • Option Four is to be married by the Captain of a US-flagged ocean-going vessel on the High Seas.

    Page 2 2009

  • The seats are narrow and too flat and the steering wheel roughly the size of that found on an ocean-going yacht (and unadjustable).

    In Which Dungeekin is Jeremy Clarkson. . . Dungeekin 2009

  • It was built in the 1950s as a response to its rival for trade, the St. Lawrence Seaway, which permits ocean-going vessels to travel between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes.

    Hurricane Katrina: The Fate of New Orleans Hangs in an Uncomfortable Balance with Mother Nature Olga Bonfiglio 2010

  • Option Four is to be married by the Captain of a US-flagged ocean-going vessel on the High Seas.

    Page 2 2009

  • Option Four is to be married by the Captain of a US-flagged ocean-going vessel on the High Seas.

    Page 2 2009

  • The P.C. Company owned fleets of river-steamers and ocean-going craft, and, in addition to farming the sea, exploited a hundred thousand square miles or so of the land that, on the maps of geographers, usually occupies the white spaces.

    THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

  • At the first meal on the ocean-going steamship out of St. Michaels,

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • The deal is a coup for Houston-based Cheniere as it seeks contracts for its liquefied gas, which will be super-cooled for export in ocean-going tankers, before beginning construction of a $6 billion facility in Cameron Parish, La., next year.

    BG, Cheniere Forge Gas-Export Pact Daniel Gilbert 2011

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