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Cape Cod Canal

American  

noun

  1. a canal in SE Massachusetts, connecting Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod Bay. 8 miles (13 km) long.


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Monday to reports of a loud crash and people screaming for help in the Cape Cod Canal.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2018

Route 6 across the Cape Cod Canal is expected to remain open.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2018

The Sagamore and Bourne Bridges that bring you over the Cape Cod Canal are in very dangerous physical condition.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2017

Massachusetts' Cape Cod Canal, offering a shortcut across the base of the peninsula, was officially opened to shipping traffic.

From US News ● Jul. 29, 2015

We Bostonians are greatly surprised that your valuable journal has as yet taken no notice of the great undertaking of the century—the Cape Cod Canal.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 by Various

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