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canal basin

canal basin noun: a broad pool of water on a canal system where barges / canal boats can moor and load or unload cargo.

Noun

canal basin (plural canal basins)

  1. A broad pool of water on a canal system where barges / canal boats can moor and load or unload cargo.
    • Incidentally, the yard in front of the Granary, now a lovely piazza, was once a canal basin that had been filled in decades before.2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 43

Forms of canal basin

pluralcanal basins

Questions about canal basin

What does canal basin mean?
Canal basin means a broad pool of water on a canal system where barges / canal boats can moor and load or unload cargo.
What part of speech is canal basin?
Canal basin is a noun.
What is the plural of canal basin?
The plural of canal basin is canal basins.

Words near canal basin in the dictionary

  1. Canajuns
  2. canakin
  3. canakins
  4. canakinumab
  5. canal
  6. canal basin
  7. canal basins
  8. canal boat
  9. canal boats
  10. canal bridge
  11. canal bridges

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