roadstead

Definitions

A partly sheltered anchorage; a stretch of water near the shore where vessels may ride at anchor, but with less protection than a harbour.

Equivalents

Examples

“The shores of Protection island form⟳ on its south side, which is about two miles long, a most excellent roadstead, and a channel into port Discovery, near 2 miles wide on either side […]”

“[…] I found we were lying in a roadstead among many low and rocky islets, hovered about by an innumerable cloud of sea-fowl.”

“[…] that was the time when at the mast-heads of the three-deckers and seventy-fours moored in her own⟳ roadstead […] the blue-jackets, to be numbered by thousands, ran up with huzzas the British colors with the union and cross wiped out […]”

“Clusters of strong flowers rose everywhere above the coarse tussocks of bent. It was like⟳ a roadstead crowded with tall fairy-shipping.”

“In 1620 junks began to arrive⟳ from China depositing hundreds of migrants, and with the resumption of China's official trade⟳ to Southeast Asia in 1683, the numbers of junks arriving annually in Batavia's roadstead grew from an average of three or four to about twenty.”

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