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SHIP CANAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A canal large enough for seagoing vessels
Synonyms:
ship canal; shipway
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("ship canal" is a kind of...):
canal (long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation)
Instance hyponyms:
Gota Canal (a canal for small oceangoing ships to enter Lake Vanern in Sweden)
Panama Canal (a ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (1904-1914))
Suez Canal (a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea)
