Meaning of gracht | Babel Free

Definitions

A canal in a city, with houses on each side.

Examples

“Besides the grachts enumerated, there is an inner semicircular one, called the Cingel, the name usually given to the outer fosse; a much wider space, called the Binnen Amstel, receiving the first inlet of water from the river of that name; several capacious basons or docks; and at least a hundred smaller grachts, or canal-streets.”

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