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Meaning of sasse | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
sæs

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Français sasse sasse sassé

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.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

Sassed Sassen sassenach Sasser Sasses Sassi

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