Meaning of sasse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sluice or lock, as in a river or canal, to make it more navigable.
   obsolete
2. A surname.

Examples

“Thence with him to the Trinity-house to dinner; where Sir Richard Brown, one of the clerkes of the Council, and who is much concerned against Sir N. Crisp's project of making a great sasse in the King's lands about Deptford, to be a wett-dock to hold 200 sail of ships.”

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