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roadstead

noun
/ˈɹəʊdstɛd/UK/ˈɹoʊdˌstɛd/US

Etymology

From road + stead.

  1. inherited from *stéh₂tis✻
  2. inherited from *stadiz✻
  3. inherited from stede
  4. inherited from sted
  5. compounded as roadstead — “road + stead”

Definitions

  1. A partly sheltered anchorage

    A partly sheltered anchorage; a stretch of water near the shore where vessels may ride at anchor, but with less protection than a harbour.

    • The shores of Protection island form on its south side, which is about two miles long, a most excellent roadstead, and a channel into port Discovery, near 2 miles wide on either side […]
    • […] I found we were lying in a roadstead among many low and rocky islets, hovered about by an innumerable cloud of sea-fowl.
    • […] that was the time when at the mast-heads of the three-deckers and seventy-fours moored in her own roadstead […] the blue-jackets, to be numbered by thousands, ran up with huzzas the British colors with the union and cross wiped out […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at roadstead. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at roadstead. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at roadstead

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA