German Ocean

British  

noun

1. a former name for the North Sea

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Example Sentences

It wasn’t long before another sensation joined them, as the vessel began to roll in the German Ocean swell.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

“That’s like the bloody German Ocean out there.”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

But the necessity to maintain a blockading force in the German Ocean imposed a fresh strain on its naval resources, and the hostility of Holland closed a most important route to British commerce in Europe.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

The North Sea or German Ocean, my dear Tsar, No doubt hath its pearls, It also hath other things, As, for example, a Dover-Ostend route.

From Outlook Odes by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)

Even when the Roman empire used one language, intelligible from the Ægean to the German Ocean, the Italic districts must have differed in their local vernacular.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington