canal basin en · NOUN
Meanings
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A broad pool of water on a canal system where barges / canal boats can moor and load or unload cargo.
Incidentally, the yard in front of the Granary, now a lovely piazza, was once a canal basin that had been filled in decades before.
2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 43:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| canal basins | Number=Plur | lexicographic |