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Meanings of seaway in English

Catalan
via marítima

A lane at sea that is a regularly used route for vessels.

via marítima
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Examples for "sea lane"
Examples for "sea lane"
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Fighting has flared in the city near a major sea lane for transporting oil.
The Irish Times
2
Yemen sits on a strategic sea lane where some 3 million barrels of oil pass daily.
Reuters
3
Because of where she is, the colony controls-or ,putanother way, Britain controls- avitalsea lane.
Outposts: journeys to the surviving relics of the british empire
4
Russia, however, now controls Crimea's Kerch Strait, a narrow sea lane connecting the Azov and Black seas.
The Guardian
5
It's shockingly dangerous: this is the busiest sea lane in the world, more than 400 ships a day.
The Guardian
1
In crossing the second ship route, out along the Beaches of Jersey, we were not so successful in escaping observation.
Armageddon 2419 A. D.
1
I was familiar with it because it was an important trade route.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
2
It didn't take long for Snake Dike to become a trade route.
Climbing Magazine
3
Not a steamer route nor trade route crosses this stretch of ocean.
The Night-Born
4
You will also notice that this fairway is an important trade route.
From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People
5
For South Africa and Namibia's bilateral relations, Nakop is an important trade route.
The South African
Usage of seaway in English
1
You know her tricks better than I do in a seaway.
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
2
Do you think you can pull an oar in a heavy seaway, Mr.
Across India; Or, Live Boys in the Far East
3
There was no train by the seaway from Rome until night.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida / Selected from the Works of Ou...
4
A tub will float in a seaway; why shouldn't the vessel?
A Dream of the North Sea
5
The British ship drew away on our weather beam, wallowing horribly in the seaway.
Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"
6
Everybody knows there was a shallow seaway cutting across the continent during the Late Cretaceous.
Wired
7
Whenever there was a little seaway, it was apt to work loose in the brasses.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition...
8
To be five miles from shore in a seaway in kayaks like ours was a sensation.
Crooked Trails
9
The world, rolling in her majestic seaway, heeled her gunwale slowly into the trough of space.
Where the Blue Begins
10
Reef organisms flourished in the ancient seaway, laying the foundations for today's pan-tropical coral reef communities.
The Guardian
11
But it's a card compass and spins so bad in a seaway there ain't no telling, anyway.
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
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He found his brother the island midway down the mountain, sliding under cover of winter for the seaway.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
13
Some rolled and puffed like tugboats in a heavy seaway, others glided by noiseless and proud as private yachts.
The Scarlet Car
14
A ship's yawl, being both broad and deep, is one of the safest of small boats in a seaway.
Ralph Granger's Fortunes
15
China's recent naval exercises in the disputed seaway and the building of islands there, with military assets, has unnerved its neighbors.
Reuters
16
The band around the Earth, decorated with sea horses and fanciful aquatic figures, represents the seaway now completed around the globe.
The Jewel City
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Seaway through the time