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Cattegat

British  
/ ˈkætɪˌɡæt /

noun

  1. a former spelling of Kattegat

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The town possesses a magnificent harbour, on the Cattegat, the shores of which make a pleasant promenade.

From Denmark by M. Pearson Thomson

There he embarked for the Cattegat, with a favourable wind, and after crossing the Sound landed at Helsingburg.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

The storm drew near: she heard the sea roaring and rolling to the east and to the west, like the waves of the North Sea and the Cattegat.

From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. W. (Henry William) Dulcken

Cattegat and the rat raced headlong around the room once, and Uncle Leonard nearly kicked himself off his feet as the rat slipped unhurt by him.

From Harper's Young People, June 8, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

You should see this coast on a stormy day, more especially at Grenen, where those two mighty seas, the Skagerack and Cattegat, meet.

From Denmark by M. Pearson Thomson

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