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Definition of Buzzards Bay
1. Noun. An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buzzards Bay
Literary usage of Buzzards Bay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of New England by Porter Sargent (1916)
"Hood ... in determining upon the practicability of cutting a canal between
Barnstable and Buzzards Bay ere this." In 1802 Wendell Davis wrote: "The ..."
2. New England Chronology: From the Discovery of the Country, by Cabot, in 1497 by Alden Bradford (1843)
"... at Sandwich, connecting the navigation of the waters in Barnstable bay on NE
with Buzzards bay on the south—a committee was sent to view the place, ..."
3. Automobile Blue Book (1917)
"Direct route avoiding cobblestone pavement In Fall River and making an excellent
connection to points on Buzzards Bay and the South Shore of Cape Cod. ..."
4. Purchase of the Cape Cod Canal by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce (1917)
"Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod Bay, Is of the most paramount importance. For the above
cogent reasons, we therefore ask, that the Government purchase the Cape ..."
5. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"Buzzards Bay and its tributaries were once famous spawning grounds for many
species of fish, and the Auks on their northward migration, entering Buzzards ..."
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