ship canal in English

noun
1
a canal wide and deep enough for ships to transit it.
In the net lofts along the ship canal they tar their seine twine with paraffin to protect against salt water.
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1. The Army Corps of Engineers has put an electric fence in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

2. The Manchester Ship Canal opened in 1894, creating the Port of Manchester and directly linking the city to the Irish Sea, 36 miles (58 km) to the west.

3. The Mississippi River system and the Great Lakes are connected only through the man-made Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, which leads from Lake Michigan to the Illinois River.

4. The Lake Washington Ship Canal bisects Seattle from east to west and is currently crossed by two fixed highway bridges and four vehicular Bascules, of which the Montlake is the easternmost

5. But if that is the case then there should be a major fault in the vicinity of Port Madison and crossing to Seattle (perhaps at the Ship Canal, aligned with the red line) – but for this there is even less evidence than there was for the Puget Sound fault.