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Definition of Roadsteads
1. roadstead [n] - See also: roadstead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roadsteads
Literary usage of Roadsteads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mechanics Magazine (1825)
"SIR,—In so commercial a country as England, it has often surprised me that no
attempt has heen made for effectually Mooring Ships in roadsteads, ..."
2. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1908)
"How we coasted along towards the west, discovering capes and deep water, roadsteads
and reefs. BELIEVING this land to be an Island, as the Pilot, ..."
3. A Treatise on Civil Engineering by Dennis Hart Mahan (1873)
"The anchorage of open roadsteads is often insecure, owing to violent winds ...
roadsteads. The term roadstead is applied to an indentation of the coast, ..."
4. A Treatise on Civil Engineering: Rev. and Ed. with Additions by Dennis Hart Mahan (1902)
"roadsteads. The term roadstead is applied to an indentation of the coast, where
vessels may ride securely at anchor under all circumstances of weather. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Harbour Engineering by Brysson Cunningham (1908)
"roadsteads may be either natural or artificial. In the case of a natural roadstead,
a deep channel, with an intervening bank or shoal to seaward, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Harbour Engineering by Brysson Cunningham (1908)
"roadsteads of Ostend. idea have grown several accretions of meaning, the gradations
of which it is ... roadsteads may be either natural or artificial. ..."
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