DEFINITIONS

can buoy

noun

a cylindrical, unlighted buoy used as a channel marker.

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Compare nun buoy.

Origin of can buoy

First recorded in 1620–30
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Examples from the Web for can buoy

  • He had so little room that his main-boom hit the can-buoy as he swept by.

    The Seiners|James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

British Dictionary definitions for can buoy

can buoy

noun

nautical a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US watersCompare nun buoy
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