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  • noun Plural form of roadstead.

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Examples

  • In such way had vanished all the worlds and harbours and roadsteads and atoll lagoons where the

    CHAPTER XXIV 2010

  • People who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.

    The Last Laugh Joseph O'Neil 2008

  • People who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.

    The Last Laugh Joseph O'Neil 2008

  • Libya's desert cheerless roadsteads have I sailed, to each and all of them; and whensoe'er I draw me near my native land, the storm-wind drives me back again, and never yet have favouring breezes filled my sails, to let me reach my fatherland.

    Helen 2008

  • Libya's desert cheerless roadsteads have I sailed, to each and all of them; and whensoe'er I draw me near my native land, the storm-wind drives me back again, and never yet have favouring breezes filled my sails, to let me reach my fatherland.

    Helen 2008

  • He should “be careful to take soundings off all coasts, roadsteads.”

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • He should “be careful to take soundings off all coasts, roadsteads.”

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Besides, you have harbours and roadsteads, without which it is not possible to turn a naval power to account.

    Hellenica 2007

  • The great disadvantage of all these harbours and roadsteads is the shallowness of the water for some distance from the land; this has the effect of raising a great deal of surf when the wind blows on shore, and also of compelling vessels of any size to anchor at a considerable distance out, thus making the operations of landing and embarking cargo both tedious and expensiue.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • At rare intervals there were some narrow fissures, but not a creek available for a ship to enter to replenish its supply of water; and the wide roadsteads were unprotected and exposed to well-nigh every point of the compass.

    Off on a Comet 2003

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