canal basin

noun

A broad pool of water on a canal system where barges / canal boats can moor and load or unload cargo.

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nouncanal basin (plural canal basins)

plural canal basins

  1. 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
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